Rabbi David Kaplan - Philosophy of Mitzvot: Childbirth

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mitzvah 166 is the uh is a completely different subject than we talked about last time and this is a torah law a rabbinic law is changed this uh rubinogua has has altered this a little bit but told by torah law when a woman gives birth she becomes ritually impure for seven days after she's had a boy and for 14 days after she's had a girl that is a torah law now nowadays the woman is the woman is uh that means after seven days she could immerse and then she's permissible to her husband even if she is still bleeding uh because that blood is not by torah that's not considered regular menstrual blood um in our day in age the is that any sighting of blood whatsoever and a woman is becomes ritually impure so so that's a rabbinic law but in the days back in the day when in the time of the base amigos when she would bring offerings uh then then what do you call it then that becomes uh seven days for a male in 14 days for a field female now the the reason a birth by the way a miscarriage is only after 40 days as as much as close as they could calculate 40 days of of conception then it's only considered a viable fetus after 40 days if she's miscarried before 40 days that's not considered a birth uh interestingly enough the word vlad vlad which is a an embryo is the numerical value of 40. six lamid is

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1. 0:14mitzvah 166 is the uh is a completely different subject than we talked about last time…
2. 3:59very complex creatures we're made up of a lot of different components and they're relationships relationships…
3. 7:40said if men fed the kids they'd probably starve which is true right which is very…
4. 11:15childbirth there would be no menstruation there would be no illness in the world there'd be…
5. 14:58for the laws of family purity and therefore the torah says that that when a girl…
6. 18:37so every day you'd be walking in there and i there were there were certain days…
7. 22:16along and in the laws of family purity the rabbis create enacted an entire set of…
8. 26:02greater strengthening because because exactly for this reason well it's only rabbinical when i was growing…
9. 29:43verbal vow that she is never going to end up in this situation again which means…
10. 33:24through a life-threatening situation most of the time the overwhelming majority of the time hashem nothing…

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