Any time blood leaves a woman’s uterus not due to trauma. From the Start of Flow until the wife’s immersion in a mikvah, she and her husband must follow the laws of Niddah conduct. This includes refraining from physical relations.
The date and hour that a woman first notices her flow.
Internal Examination with a white cloth to ascertain that bleeding has completely ended. According to most opinions, at least five days must elapse from the Start of Flow before performing a Hefsek Tahara. Some Sefardic opinions require only four days.
Internal Examination with a white cloth to ascertain that bleeding has completely ended. According to most opinions, at least five days must elapse from the Start of Flow before performing a Hefsek Tahara. Some Sefardic opinions require only four days.
Immediately following the woman’s seven white days. After emerging from the mikvah, the woman enters the new status of “Tehorah” or “Pure”. A woman may not immerse in the Mikvah on the nights of Yom Kippur, Tish’a B’av, or a night of one of her Anticipated Flows (Vestot). In these cases, Mikvah night would be pushed off until the following night.
Relations are not permitted during an Anticipated Flow.
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Internal Examination with a white cloth. A woman must perform the internal examination with bedikah cloths on a few occasions:
Chabad custom is that the woman should perform the examination no earlier that the same time of day as the Start of Flow of the cycle which projected this Flow.
From Sunrise to Sunset (Day) or Sunset to Sunrise (Night)
From Sunset to Sunset which is a full Hebrew Day.