Tag: Halacha
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Niddah – Traditional Practice and Modern Rethinking
Today I want to talk about the traditional practice and practicalities of niddah, and then brainstorm about how someone could draw upon the practice and potentially modify and update it to suit their own physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. First, let’s review how someone enters the status of niddah and explain how one then leaves…
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A Brief Explanation of the Menstrual Cycle and How it Relates to Niddah
(Starting with my general disclaimer that will apply to almost every single post on this blog – I am not an expert in any of this. I am, however, an academic at heart, and I try to gather information from reliable sources.) To talk about niddah, about fertility, about natural family planning, we need to…
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Who am I? Why am I doing this? And what should we all expect?
Instead of starting with who I am, I feel it’s better in this case to say who I am not. I am not a “Jewish Professional”, I’m just a person who happens to be Jewish. I am not an Orthodox Jew, and I am not an expert in halacha. I don’t follow halacha in the…
Natural Niddah 