2007-12-11 14:11:07 · 11 answers · asked by Macy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
most of those rules are not applicable today, due to the fact that their is no temple.
2007-12-11 14:20:07 · answer #1 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Nowadays, the regulations and rules of a woman who is menstruating are only applicable to her in relation to her husband; a woman is not allowed to have intercourse with her husband from the beginning of her period, until she immerses in the mikveh, which is about 12 days later.
The biblical regulations mentioned in Leviticus are not applicable today.
For more detailed information on this state of impurity, known as niddah:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niddah
On the subject of the mikveh:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikveh
If you have any more questions on the matter, please feel free to email me.
2007-12-11 17:00:01 · answer #2 · answered by kismet 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unclean to a man. But when they get to that level of craziness the men are segregated from the women anyway.
2007-12-11 14:15:54 · answer #3 · answered by Benji 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
no -- it means that the things she regularly uses have a level of impurity which has to be resolved. For modesty's sake, a man should not sit in her chair, nor should she sit in his during that time anyway.
but you are quoting a literal and textual biblical reference -- rabbinic judaism has an entire other code of law which explains how the bare written text is applied.
2007-12-11 14:15:39 · answer #4 · answered by rosends 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
According to that tradition, she is unclean, not the chair she sits in.
2007-12-11 14:15:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. What the God Yahweh is referring to is disease prevention by preventing coming in contact with the woman's exposed blood on all surfaces. This wasn't meant as God thinking woman were dirty and unclean but as a way of keeping everyone healthy. Proving Yahweh had a working knowledge of the germ theory which atheists can't say about Charles Darwin who still believed in the spontaneous generation theory 3500 years later.
2007-12-11 15:30:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
You put a cloth on the chair for her to sit on. In those days they did not have O'B's or tampons. While much of the old testament is bloody awful, there are a few practical hygienic rituals. I would say that is one of them.
2007-12-11 14:39:26 · answer #7 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It depends on if you follow the Torah, the written teachings of God, or the Talmud, the written teachings of men who trace it back to the oral law. What is contained in one isn't necessarily in the other.
2007-12-11 14:18:10 · answer #8 · answered by Bride of Yeshua 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
that refers to orthodox jews.
2007-12-11 14:15:16 · answer #9 · answered by yazzypwns 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
yes, especially on the bus.
2007-12-11 14:14:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋