(niddah)" .

Rabbinic injunctions

The copious laws of niddah contained in the Jewish rabbinic writings are almost entirely made-up of "fences" , or safeguards, built around the Torah. The general rule which applies is that a woman is clean from the standpoint of the Torah until she feels uterine blood discharge from its source within her body. However, the rabbis have declared a woman to be unclean although she has not felt any discharge of blood, but has merely seen either a red or black blood

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