- Niddah
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- Moshe Ben-Chaim
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- Reader: you often stress the importance of rational
understanding.yet there are things in halacha that defy any attempt to
be rational. for example, the way hilchos niddah is taught a woman
should make two bedikas a day, wear white undergarments, white night
gown and use white sheets. this is completely neurotic. also a woman
cannot pass any object to her husband. and these are all stringencies
imposed by rabbi's that I'm supposed to respect. They do not make any
sense. Judaism is a beautiful religion that becomes torturous to
follow because of a million stringencies added to the original laws.
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- Mesora: Wearing white is simply
to have the best contrast for determining if a woman is still
bleeding. Colored garments make it more difficult. It is not neurotic.
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- Abstention from passing objects directly to one/s spouse when a
niddah is also based on a sound principle, I refer to
"identification". When one takes something from another's
hand, there is an identification which exists at that moment, a
closeness, which if not restricted, might lead to physical contact,
and perhaps violation of sexual abstinence during niddah. You can see
this idea of identification when two people shake hands. The entire
shaking hands institution is to create a closer bond with someone
else.
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- Keep asking these types of questions objectively, you will see more
and more insights of the Torah and the Rabbis, and you will then come
to appreciate the complexity of human nature, and the precision of our
Torah laws which address each and every aspect of the human condition,
guiding us towards correct notions and true happiness.
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