Bedikah (Internal Examination Cloth)
The examination-cloth check central to niddah practice — used to check for the onset of menstruation, for hefsek taharah, and through the seven 'clean' days.
A bedikah is a cloth check a woman performs to see whether menstrual bleeding has begun or fully stopped. In the laws of family purity (niddah), this small examination carries real weight: it checks for the onset of menstruation, it marks the hefsek taharah that ends the bleeding, and it confirms each of the seven 'clean' days that follow.
How it traveled
- Mishnah NiddahYavneh · c. 200 CEdefines
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כָּל הַיָּד הַמַּרְבָּה לִבְדֹּק בְּנָשִׁים, מְשֻׁבַּחַת. וּבַאֲנָשִׁים, תִּקָּצֵץ. הַחֵרֶשֶׁת וְהַשּׁוֹטָה וְהַסּוּמָא וְשֶׁנִּטְרְפָה דַעְתָּהּ, אִם יֶשׁ לָהֶן פִּקְחוֹת, מְתַקְּנוֹת אוֹתָן וְהֵן או
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