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Bedikah cloth
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The Bedikah cloth or a "checking cloth," called an eid in Hebrew, is a clean piece of white cloth used in the process of purifying a niddah. It is used by a Jewish woman to determine whether she has finished menstruation. The cloth is inserted into the vagina, and if no blood is found, she may start counting the 7 blood-free days. On each of these days she performs this examination in the morning and in the later afternoon. If no blood is found, she may go to the mikveh on the eighth evening, and then engage in relations with her husband. It is also used by a Jewish man to check if he has gotten blood on himself from his wife after relations to determine whether she menstruates during relations. Such cloths are about two by four inches, and are available at local Judaica stores, the local mikvah, or may be cut from clean all-white soft cotton cloth or linen cloth . |
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