Niddah

We also have the testimony of the master himself, but in his words we hear of a Baraita, not a Baraita de-Niddah, which he claims to have seen in writings of the Geonim, those rabbis active in Babylonia (current day Iraq) from the seventh to the eleventh centuries c.e. About five decades later we hear again of a similar title from Moses ben Nahman, known as Ramban or Nahmanides (1194 – 1270).

Baraita de-Niddah. 2009

Other quotations of texts which seem to be from the Baraita de-Niddah exist in various manuscripts.

Baraita de-Niddah. 2009

In 1890, using a manuscript he had found in Italy, Chaim Horowitz, a prolific student and editor of rabbinic sources, published in Frankfurt a booklet he entitled Baraita de-Niddah.

Baraita de-Niddah. 2009

This became the model for stringency in reference to a case of doubtful ritual impurity in a private domain which the rabbinic sages considered as definite impurity (BT Niddah 3a, 56a).

Legal-Religious Status of the Suspected Adulteress (Sotah). leBeit Yoreh 2009

A girl comes to wisdom faster than a boy and hence reaches the age of education, the age of vows and majority at a younger age (twelve years and a day) than a boy (thirteen years and a day) (Mishnah Niddah 5: 6; 6: 11).

Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female. leBeit Yoreh 2009

Niddah refers to the religious laws relating to separation and reunion between spouses during and after menstruation.

Morocco: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2009

This modern critical edition of the Baraita de-Niddah includes, in addition to an introduction, analysis and stemma, also a complete translation of the text in French.

Baraita de-Niddah. 2009

However, it was not until the end of the nineteenth century that an entire text presented as the Baraita de-Niddah was available to scholars.

Baraita de-Niddah. 2009

They were discussed and developed centuries later in the Mishnah and in the Babylonian Talmud (in a limited way also in the Palestinian Talmud), in Tractate Niddah of the Order Tohorot (“Purities”).

Baraita de-Niddah. 2009

The rabbinic sages believed that her hymen would return and her virginity would re-establish itself if she had intercourse prior to that age (BT Niddah 45a).

Legal-Religious Status of the Married Woman. leBeit Yoreh 2009