391 | On the Halakhic Status of Menstruant Women menstruation, and, after giving birth to a male child she would stay there for forty days, and for a female one for eighty days . Returning to Jewish law, we saw that in antiquity the menstruant women, were secluded in , ) טמאות ( and women after childbirth, being “unclean” a special hut – and until recently so too among the Ethiopian Jews - and excluded from entering the synagogue . They had to go through a purification process before they could be reintegrated into the community . Now the reason that in antiquity a menstruant woman was placed in a , בית הטומאות or according to another reading ( בית הטמאות special hut, called a see Albeck’s note in his commentary to the Mishnah, p . 588 ) , was so that she come into no contact with her husband . There were those who interpreted the verses in Num . 5 : 2 - 3 as meaning that all impure persons should be sent “out of the camp”, i . e . the town . This was the understanding of Josephus Anti...
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