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The Encyclopaedia of Judaism provides a full and reliable account of Judaism, the religion, its diverse history, literature, beliefs, observances, practices, and its place in the context of society and culture from ancient Israelite times to our own day. By reason of its antiquity, influence on other world religions, power to persuade the faithful of its truth, and contemporary vitality, Judaism...

one wholly integrated to the cycle of reproduction. Then the entire sequence—eleven Zibah-days, seven Niddah-days—forms an account of the woman’s relationship to the procreative cycle, which involves three possibilities: she wholly participates, having sexual relations, receiving semen and not emitting blood; she is wholly excluded, not having sexual relations at all, and she is temporarily excluded but remains sexually accessible, which is why the Torah makes provision for the status of one who,
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