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The case of a couple who are engaged in sexual intercourse when she realizes she has begun menstruating — which makes their intimacy a violation of niddah. The question, of course, is what are they to do? With extenuating factors in whether the man is a Torah scholar, for example. Also, some aggadata on the daf: the consequences – on a metaphysical level – if the couple don’t separate. And if a couple takes caution with regard to to the time when she expects to start menstruating, they’ll be rewarded as a positive consequence.

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