<div dir="ltr">RYS:12 is the absolute requirement for most people,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
: but it can be reduced, a bit, in certain cases, such as these, See as an<br>
: example the treatment given in Halachos of Niddah by Rabbi Binyomin Forst<br>
: (need to find the chapter again).<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Rav Forst, vol 2 (green version, not ladies' version), page 148, mainly in footnote. In some Sephardi communities, all women only count a 4-day minimum, and sometimes from the previous biah rather than onset of niddah. There are poskim who will allow some/all of this for all women in extenuating circumstances, even if they normally wait 5 days from the onset of niddah for a hefsek.<br>
<br>Another important, but sometimes overlooked, solution is to remind women to ask a she'elah on a hefsek attempt from day 5 even if it is stained, explaining to the rav the halachic infertility situation. This is the solution of FIRST RESORT. There are women who are convinced they have halachic infertility, who could go to the mikvah a day or two earlier simply by asking she'elot.<br>
<br>By the way, ovulation testing kits are now readily available over the counter or by ordering online, and are not expensive, so a woman can verify fairly easily whether she is indeed ovulating before mikvah. This should be done over several months, as most women do not have completely regular cycles and may ovulate before mikvah some months but not others.<br>
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</div>RMB: The impression I got from RARakeffetR was that now that the option exists,<br>
some poesaqim prefer IVH (in vitro fertilization with the husband's sperm)<br>
to being meiqil. (For anyone. Doubly so if rumor of this heter might<br>
relay the message that 7 neqi'im isn't "real".) If that's the route<br>
they take, it's likely the poseiq would advise two tevilos:<br>
Once, after niddah deOraisa, so that any consequent velad would definitely<br>
not have the pegam of being a ben niddah; and<br>
A 2nd time as per most couples, to fulfil the minhag Yisrael of 5 +<br>
7 neqi'im.<br></blockquote><div><br>AIH, not IVH. Just artificial insemination, infinitely cheaper and less complicated than IVF. Medically, it's basically the same procedure used (l'havdil) by women who do not have husbands but wish to have babies. However, it comes with its own set of significant halachic problems related to the method of obtaining the zera.<br>
<br>The heter you are referring to - tevilah during shivah neki'im, i.e., tevilah after niddah d'Oraita - is indeed a much, much more significant kula than that mentioned above in the name of Rav Forst, where the compromise is only the minimum days before the start of shivah neki'im. Such a heter, if issued, would be based on the judgment of the individual posek, taking into account all aspects of the couple's particular situation.<br>
<br>- Ilana <br></div></div></div>