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e. Hasidism ( Hebrew: חסידות, romanized : Ḥăsīdus) or Hasidic Judaism, is a religious movement within Judaism that arose as a spiritual revival movement in contemporary Western Ukraine, during the 18th century, and spread rapidly throughout Eastern Europe. Today, most of those affiliated with the movement, known as hassidim, reside in ...
t. e. A niddah (or nidah; Hebrew: נִדָּה ), in traditional Judaism, is a woman who has experienced a uterine discharge of blood (most commonly during menstruation ), or a woman who has menstruated and not yet completed the associated requirement of immersion in a mikveh (ritual bath). In the Book of Leviticus, the Torah prohibits sexual ...
t. e. In Torah and Rabbinic law, a hefsek taharah ("pause" to initiate "purity") is a verification method used in the Orthodox Jewish community by a woman who is in a niddah state to determine that menstruation has ceased. The performance of a hefsek taharah is needed to initiate the counting of seven days absent of blood discharge.
Orthodox Judaism generally adheres to the classical regulations and traditions, and consequently Orthodox Jewish women are obligated to immerse in a mikveh between niddah and sexual relations with their husbands. This includes brides before their marriage, and married women after their menstruation period or childbirth.
Women in society. Women in Judaism have affected the course of Judaism over millenia. Their role is reflected in the Hebrew Bible, the Oral Law (the corpus of rabbinic literature), by custom, and by cultural factors. Although the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature present various female role models, religious law treats women in specific ways.
Menstruation hut. A niddah hut (Mergem Gogo) at the Jewish village of Ambober in northern Ethiopia, 1976. Beta Israeli women left their homes and stayed at the hut during menstruation, until they could ritually purify themselves at the river and return home. A menstruation hut is a place of seclusion or isolation used by certain cultures with ...
Jewish slaves and their children eventually gained their freedom and joined local free Jewish communities. Late antiquity. Many Jews were denied full Roman citizenship until Emperor Caracalla granted all free peoples this privilege in 212 CE. Jews were required to pay a poll tax until the reign of Emperor Julian in 363 CE. In the late Roman ...
Shekinah Rising, the sequel to Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women, is a Canadian documentary produced in 2013, which explores the lives and attitudes of young Hasidic women at a Chabad -run seminary in Ste Agathe, Quebec. [2] [3] The documentary covers the perspectives of the female students, as well as religious views of former ...