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DAF DISCUSSIONS - NIDAH 31

Barry Epstein asked:

I will put all these on the same page.

1) If a niddah stops at day 3 and has 7 clean days, is she permitted?

2) Once a zav immerses, is he permitted to his wife but not to terumah or kodesh?

3) Can one be a zav today?

4) On day 7, can she immerse midday and be permitted to her husband? The notes to 33a say that Biblically she is permitted as "part of a day is like a day." Do we Rabbinically prohibit this?

Barry Epstein, Dallas, USA

The Kollel replies:

1) No. One must generally wait five days before starting the seven clean days (see Remah Y.D. 196:11 and Mareh Kohen pg. 37).

2) He indeed cannot deal with Taharos, as we are scared that he will still see a flow before nightfall, ruining his seven clean days and rendering him retroactively Tamei. However, I do not know of any source offhand that prohibits a Zav from being with his wife even while Tamei, although his wife would obviously become Tamei as she is considered as touching a Zav (see Rambam Mishkav u'Moshav 3:3 who states that one who has relations with a Zav has the same Halachic Tumah as someone who touches a Zav, unlike one who has relations with a Nidah).

3) I don't see why not.

4) This is Rabinnically prohibited for the same reason given in answer 2) above (see 67b at length, and Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 197:3).

All the best,

Yaakov Montrose