Women

Source: Halachipedia: Women

Link: 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)