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]21[ One may stand on leather pillows or cushions since they are not
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considered shoes. However, during shemoneh esrei, it is forbidden to stand on
anything as it appears arrogant. Nevertheless, it appears to me that one who has
a cold may stand on grass to separate himself from the ground. 39
]22[ Marital relations are forbidden, and therefore one must conduct himself as
if his wife is a nidah, and certainly he may not touch her, during the day or night.
Certainly he may not sleep in the same bed as her even if they are both fully
dressed, and he shouldn’t converse with her excessively. 40
]23[ One who has a seminal emission on Yom Kippur should be concerned the
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whole year, and if he survives the year, he is guaranteed a place in olam ha’ba. 42
]24[ The halacha regarding children is explained above in hilchos Tefilah, (vol. 1)
66:11 regarding the halacha of a child. 43
םדו רשב
woman after childbirth may wear shoes and daven shemoneh esrei standing on a chair or
the poskim rule leniently. The Ran explains cushion even if it is less than three tefachim
that this leniency applies for thirty days after above the ground, as it is considered arrogant.
she gives birth. The reason why she may wear See also Aruch Hashulchan who permits
shoes is in order to protect her from the cold standing on a cushion which is less than one
of the floor (Yoma 78b) and the rishonim tefach high, and certainly one may daven
expand this leniency to include any other ill standing on a thin layer of grass or leaves, or a
person or someone whose foot is wounded. thin mat (poskim).
38. The Mordechai writes that they would 40. The mishna (Yoma 73b) lists marital
take leather cushions to shul so that people relations as one of the prohibitions of Yom
with sore feet could stand on them. Although Kippur, since abstaining from it is considered
this is halacha, the Terumas Hadeshen an inui (as proven from pesukim, Yoma 77a).
understands that perhaps there is reason to be The rishonim understand that they should also
machmir, and while the Magen Avraham refrain from touching, or sleeping in the same
rejects this, others (Mishna Berura, Shulchan bed, even if the bed is very wide and they are
Aruch HaRav) praise those who avoid it. both fully dressed, for even if they won’t
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engage in intimacy, it might affect his purity of
39. See Shulchan Aruch (O.C. 90:1) and thought, possibly leading to a nocturnal
Chayei Adam (vol. 1 22:4) that one may not emission (Levush). The Shelah adds that they
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