tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5292734369805726323.post7981026679604925341..comments2023-11-12T20:59:55.490-05:00Comments on Building a Jewish Life: Halachic Discussion: Are Female Converts "Not Niddah" After the Mikvah?Kochavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11841373131402987905noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5292734369805726323.post-64989020869546227082015-07-07T05:05:03.724-04:002015-07-07T05:05:03.724-04:00Stop Coffee and worry about niddah when you are ma...Stop Coffee and worry about niddah when you are married. When you convert and go th the mikveh... well... if your intention is on deciding whether or not you are niddah...I would have those papers checked. If you are not married then don't worry?? Last if you are having relations out of marriage.. why worry about niddah... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5292734369805726323.post-7760942683417091682011-03-06T11:22:19.395-05:002011-03-06T11:22:19.395-05:00I wanted to point out that since a convert cannot ...I wanted to point out that since a convert cannot be a niddah before she converted (after all, only a Jewish woman could be a Niddah), then she is not a Niddah when she converts. <br /><br />Thus as long as she was not having a menstrual event at that moment of conversion, she is a non-Nidah after the Mikvah. <br /><br />Thus she is Tehorah. <br /><br />She would only become a Niddah at the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5292734369805726323.post-87495208874964487782010-12-22T23:20:53.577-05:002010-12-22T23:20:53.577-05:00Interesting question! I'm really impressed wi...Interesting question! I'm really impressed with the wealth of knowledge in the comments. My only thought was that it's a different kind of experience. Mikveh for conversion is more like rebirth whereas mikveh for Tarahas HaMishpacha is more for being permitted. Now that I think about it, though, they're both about changing status. Hmmmm....Rivki Silverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00773820619229821907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5292734369805726323.post-3820855683151813702010-12-20T01:14:17.537-05:002010-12-20T01:14:17.537-05:00Thank you all for contributing! That was very inte...Thank you all for contributing! That was very interesting! Hahhaa, of course, I'm still not sure what the answer is!CrazyJewishConverthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06219720130466040423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5292734369805726323.post-21452464163205068182010-12-19T15:49:38.544-05:002010-12-19T15:49:38.544-05:00I'm generally not inclined to offer an actual ...I'm generally not inclined to offer an actual halachic opinion on line. It isn't my place to do so. But if one sees a statement that may misrepresent the halacha, it should be questioned. Carrie's citation of the Rambam *might* be misunderstood by some to mean that if a woman goes to mikvah for her nidah status, that intent is an irreplaceable condition for a valid immersion. ThisMordechai Y. Scherhttp://www.kolberamah.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5292734369805726323.post-3078316236810277102010-12-17T13:28:46.620-05:002010-12-17T13:28:46.620-05:00Great questions, Chavi. Rambam says that if a per...Great questions, Chavi. Rambam says that if a person immerses without intention, it is as if he / she has not immersed at all. (See Mishneh Torah, Mikvaot 11:12.) I.e. a person's intent for the purpose of the immersion is very important indeed.<br /><br />That, and a convert's mikveh visit does not need to incorporate any checking that bleeding has stopped, counting of additional days.Carriehttp://www.mayyimhayyim.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5292734369805726323.post-72079512883180638082010-12-17T13:21:38.295-05:002010-12-17T13:21:38.295-05:00In halachik literature, the opposite of a niddah i...In halachik literature, the opposite of a niddah is a tehorah. As far as your question, I think it depend on the application. I dont think that the tevila for geirus would work for niddah to permit activities that would normally be prohibited to a nidda (e.g. sexual relations), without completing the other requisite steps (the minimum amount of required bedikos, chafifa, etc). As I recall the Izzynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5292734369805726323.post-56652261419383647582010-12-17T11:57:57.528-05:002010-12-17T11:57:57.528-05:00In the case of being a ben/bat niddah, R. Moshe Fe...In the case of being a ben/bat niddah, R. Moshe Feinstein ruled leniently in the case that she may have went swimming in the ocean or an outdoor swimming pool and was not actually niddah during the time of conception. Even with no intention to change your state of purity, a woman is rendered not-niddah. While swimming does involve clothing of a type, I guess then question then would become how Lilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12346629911135742919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5292734369805726323.post-71682260705791880362010-12-17T09:19:22.252-05:002010-12-17T09:19:22.252-05:00I don't know, perhaps the opposite of niddah w...I don't know, perhaps the opposite of niddah would be trumah, as in, impurity? :S But that's too much of a general term.<br /><br />Your question is an interesting one, very much within the style of questions that pop into my head from time to time :)<br /><br />Listen, assuming the 'white days' have passed, don't you think the woman is from then on automatically not-niddah, Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973896252322113501noreply@blogger.com