# Women

Source: Halachipedia: Women

Link: [https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Women](https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Women)

Exported: 2025-12-30

Here are some pages that relate to or tend to be associated with women in halacha.
## **Mitzvot Performed by Women**
* Positive Time Bound Commandments (Mitzvot Aseh SheHazman Grama)
* Challah
* Shabbat Candles
* Mitzvah to Learn Torah
* Writing a Sefer Torah

## **Degrees of Separation Between Genders for Modesty**
* Listening to a woman's voice (Kol Isha)
* Seclusion of men and women (Yichud)
* Negiah
* Modesty (Tzniut)
    * Serara - Halachik debate over women in positions of leadership and authority

## **Niddah**
### How a Woman Becomes a Niddah
* Attributing Blood to a Wound (Dam Macah)
* Bedika Clothes (Maarot)
* Hargasha
* Ketamim (Finding a Stain)
* Petichat Hamekor
* Veset (Anticipating the Period)

### When a Woman is a Niddah
* Harchakot of Niddah (Separation while she's a Niddah)

### How a Woman Becomes Pure
* The Purification Process of Niddah (Hefsek Tahara and Shiva Nekiyim)
* Preparing for the Mikveh
* Going to the Mikveh
* Chatzitza (Interpositions Between One's Body and the Mikveh)

### Niddah Before and After the Wedding
* Preparing for the Wedding (Dam Chimud)
* The Night of the Wedding (Beilat Mitzvah)
* Chupat Niddah (If a woman is Niddah at the time of the Wedding)
* Bedikot after Marriage

### Pregnancy and Giving Birth
* Pregnancy and Labor
* Giving Birth on Shabbat
* A Woman who Gave Birth (Yoledet)
* Halachot of Nursing
* Modesty During Tashmish
* Abortion

## Mikvaot
* Mikvaot
* Tefisat Yedey Adam (Water Drawn by a Person)