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Laws of Separation
The Talmudic Rabbis forbade being alone with members of the opposite gender with whom marital relations are forbidden and the punishment for willing transgression, i.e., intercourse, is excision; for example, one's daughter-in-law or sister-in-law. This prohibition, called yichud, was designed to ensure modest and proper behavior.
Relations with one's spouse during the time of nidda are forbidden and the scriptural punishment is excision. Yichud should, therefore, have fallen into their legislation. However, due to practical considerations and obvious limitations, the prohibition of yichud was not extended to one's wife.
Since the Rabbis permitted this closeness between husband and wife as an exception to the above rule, they saw the necessity to limit contact in a wide spectrum of other areas. These areas are explained in this chapter.
The laws of separation are identical regardless of whether the reason for the wife's present state of nidda is biblical (e.g. menstruation) or rabbinic (e.g. finding a stain) in origin.
Likewise, the laws of separation are equally strict both in the five day time period (see Chapter Five) and in the seven white days (see Chapter Six). Furthermore, as long as the wife hasn't immersed in a mikveh, all of the laws of separation must be followed, even if many years have gone by since her last menstrual cycle.
The wife follows the laws of separation from the moment she realizes her change of status; her husband starts from the moment she notifies him, either explicitly, or through her actions.
A couple, while in the company of other people, is not permitted to be lenient in the laws of separation for the sake of keeping the wife's nidda state a secret.
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