{"id":2210,"date":"2008-02-10T09:05:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T17:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2008-02-10T18:16:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T02:16:29","slug":"chief-rabbi-prohibits-single-women-from-going-to-mikve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"Chief rabbi prohibits single women from going to mikve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1202246357590&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter\">Matthew Wagner writes for The Jerusalem Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an attempt to stem a trend of quasi-condoned premarital sex among young  modern Orthodox men and women, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger has issued a  prohibition against allowing single women to use <em>mikvaot <\/em>(ritual baths).<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated January 24 and addressed to the rabbis of the Land of  Israel, Metzger warns of a trend in which young modern Orthodox men and women  use mikvaot to circumvent one of the severest prohibitions connected with sexual  intercourse.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is absolutely prohibited to allow a single woman to immerse herself in a  mikve,&quot; wrote Metzger. &quot;And it is an obligation to prevent her from doing so.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Metzger also advised that ritual bath attendants should be told to prevent  single women from immersing themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish law proscribes sexual relations with a woman during and after  menstruation until she immerses herself in a mikve. This prohibition is known as  <em>nidda<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, only married women have been permitted to remove the  prohibition of nidda via a mikve, so they can have sexual relations with their  husbands.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, single women have traditionally been prevented from using a  mikve because it would, in theory, remove the main prohibition against sexual  intercourse.<\/p>\n<p>There is no Biblical prohibition against a male and a female having sexual  intercourse once the obstacle of nidda has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, a less stringent rabbinic injunction against premarital  sex.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Wagner writes for The Jerusalem Post: In an attempt to stem a trend of quasi-condoned premarital sex among young modern Orthodox men and women, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger has issued a prohibition against allowing single women to use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2210\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,18,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-orthodoxy","category-sex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}