Ros. Responsa 30 b

Ros. Responsa 30 b

Nidah

1959

Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana

Levie (Louis, Lou) Vorst

Vorst

Jore De'a

TRUE

The status of a woman who tells her husband about various irregularities she encountered during the counting and immersion into the Mikvah.

A man goes on the seventh day of his wife's count of seven pure days for business out of town. And after he left his wife finds a stain on the pillow under her head. She is used to place her pillow on her body while she sleeps. And that evening she went to the Mikvah to become pure for her husband. After the attending woman properly fills up the Mikvah all of a sudden the water started to flow out of the Mikvah though the whole at the bottom. And since she was afraid that all of the water would flow out, she immediately plugged up the hole and after that immediately she poured several vessels full of water that were standing close to the Mikvah onto the floor of the mikvah room and from there the water flood into the mikvah until they reached far higher than the sign indicating the required level for the mikvah to be kosher. Then the woman immersed herself. And when the woman returned home she told him everything that happened to her. She also told him that at the start of her counting days she did not check the pillow to see if it was clean. And it is possible it is from the day she saw it. And because he was bothered the husband went to the rabbi to ask what to do about the counting and the immersion