&! Kol Eliana;

alexisandstuff:

• Women can only show their hair to their husbands and other women that they know.
• Kosher is really complicated
• You can’t mix meat and dairy, it’s a sin. So much so that they have their own silverware, dishes, etc. You would even have to completely change your tablecloth…

Also, you couldn’t have a chalavi (dairy) dessert after a meat meal. Unless you want to wait 6hrs.

Also niddah (/taharas haMishpacha/family purity) is not about being dirty; it’s a state of ritual purity (or lack thereof) that happens naturally with a woman’s cycle and has to do with being able to enter the mishkan.

Because life is the most holy and sacred thing there is, when life doesn’t happen, it leads to a temporary state of ritual impurity that is changed by immersion in a mikvah. It’s not necessarily 12 days, either, it’s all tuned in and dependent on the woman’s natural rhythm.