> From: RobStoll_at_aol.com
> There are cultural taboos in Judiasm against having sex during menstruation.
> If I can remember my old Hebrew school years correctly, I believe the
> specific word used is "unclean." (As in, don't have relations with your wife
> while she's unclean.) I can't recall if they ever explained exactly why, she
> just supposedly is. (Well, there's a Biblical quote, but I can't find it
> offhand - I need an Old Testament with an index.) Not many Jewish friends
> I've discussed this with seem to have taken this guideline very seriously.
From a search on www.gospelcom.net/bible:
Ezekial 18:6
He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of
the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor's wife or lie
with a woman during her period.
The "He" in question is the "righteous man".
End of Glorantha Digest V3 #142
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