Niddah

Niddah (or nidah, nidda, nida; Hebrew), in Judaism, is technically a state of marital separation when a woman is menstruating and seven subsequent days until she immerses in a ritual bath known as a mikvah.

Related Topics:
Hebrew - Judaism - Menstruating - Mikvah

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Niddah is the main category of a group of laws and customs that is generally called by the euphemism family purity (taharat hamishpacha).

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Niddah is also the name of a tractate (volume) in the Talmud, which deals almost exclusively with the subject.

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