Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, Siman 159 Part 2/2

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How is a bedika done and checked, and what happens when the count of seven clean days is interrupted? Then hilchos chafifa begin, including a Friday night tevilah and candle lighting that evening.

Key points

• The Kitzur calls for bedikas with a clean, used white linen cloth, or cotton or soft wool.
• Chazal were more lenient with a kesem, since it can be attributed to something else, like bed bugs.
• For a kesem that cannot be attributed mid-count, the Kitzur skips the five days: hefsek tahara before twilight, then seven.
• When five days would push past the wedding, the Kitzur prefers skipping them over a chupas niddah.
• The Kitzur has her wash in hot water, check her body and comb out her hair, called chafifa.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Bedikas with a cloth
2. 5:06Checking bedikas by daylight
3. 6:39Modern lighting and daylight
4. 8:27Bedika versus kesem
5. 12:34A kallah before her wedding
6. 15:58Hilchos chafifa
7. 23:33Chafifa when tevilah is Friday night
8. 25:55Candle lighting on a mikvah night

Topics

• Bedikas
• Kesem
• Chafifa