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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 88
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Opens “בעל קרי מותר בק"ש. ובו סעיף אחד:…”
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Source: Orach Chayim Siman 88 · Seif 1 — “<b>בעל קרי מותר בק"ש.”
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<b>בעל קרי מותר בק"ש. ובו סעיף אחד:</b><br>כל הטמאים קורין בתורה וקורין ק"ש ומתפללין חוץ מבעל קרי שהוציאו עזרא מכלל הטמאים ואסרו בין בד"ת בין בק"ש ובתפלה עד שיטבול כדי שלא יהיו ת"ח מצויין אצל נשותיהן כתרנגולין ואח"כ בטלו אותה תקנה והעמידו הדבר על הדין שאף בעל קרי מותר בד"ת ובק"ש ובתפלה בלא טבילה ובלא רחיצה דתשעה קבין וכן פשט המנהג: הגה יש שכתבו שאין לאשה נדה בימי ראייתה ליכנס לבית הכנסת או להתפלל או להזכיר השם או ליגע בספר (הגהות מיימוני פ"ד) וי"א שמותרת בכל וכן עיקר (רש"י הלכות נדה) אבל המנהג במדינות אלו כסברא הראשונה. ובימי ליבון נהגו היתר ואפילו במקום שנהגו להחמיר בימים נוראים וכה"ג שרבים מתאספים לילך לבהכ"נ מותרין לילך לב"ה כשאר נשים כי הוא להן עצבון גדול שהכל מתאספין והן יעמדו חוץ: (פסקי מהרי"א סי' קל"ב):
One Who Has Had a Seminal Emission is Permitted In the Recitation of the Sh'ma, containing 1 s'if All those who are ritually impure may read from the Torah, recite the Sh'ma, and pray [the Amidah] - except for the baal keri (one who has an emission) who was excluded by Ezra from the rest of the ritually impure, and he [Ezra] prohibited him (the baal keri ) from words of the Torah, the Recitation of the Sh'ma, or prayer [i.e. the Amidah] until he immersed, so that scholars would not be found to be [frequently intimate] with their wives like roosters. And afterwards they annulled that enactment, and they stood the matter on it's [original] law, that even the baal keri is permitted with regard to words of Torah, the Recitation of the Sh'ma, and prayer [i.e the Amidah] without immersion and without washing with nine kabs [of water], and such is the widespread custom. Rem"a: There are those who wrote that a menstruant woman in the days when she sees [blood] may not enter the synagogue or pray [the Amidah], or mention the Name, or touch the [Torah] scroll (Hagahot Maimoni ch. 4). And there are those who say that she is permitted in all [of those], and that is the correct opinion (Rashi, Laws of Niddah). But the practice in these lands [Ashkenaz] is according to the first opinion. And in the "clean days" [after menstruation, but before immersion] it is permitted [to do these things]. And even in a place where they are stringent during the High Holidays and similar days, where many assemble to go the synagogue, they are permitted to go to the synagogue like the rest of the women, for it would cause great sadness for them, that all are assembled and they stand outside (Terumat HaDeshen, Part II 132).
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