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Matthew's and Luke's accounts specify the "fringe" of his cloak, using a Greek word which also appears in Mark 6. [8] According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on fringes in Scripture, the Pharisees (one of the sects of Second Temple Judaism) who were the progenitors of modern Rabbinic Judaism, were in the habit of wearing extra-long fringes or tassels (Matthew 23:5), [9] a reference to ...
A niddah (alternative forms: nidda, nida, or nidah; Hebrew: נִדָּה nidá), in traditional Judaism, is a woman who has experienced a uterine discharge of blood (most commonly during menstruation), or a woman who has menstruated and not yet completed the associated requirement of immersion in a mikveh (ritual bath).
One example is the case of "a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was not better but rather grew worse". [20] After healing her, Jesus tells her "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace! Be cured from your illness". [21]
It's New Year's, a time for us to consider what resolutions mean to us. "Sunday Morning" correspondent Faith Salie talks about how to stay present in our lives as time marches on.
One such woman had been plagued with a flow of blood for 12 years, no one having been able to heal her. She found the faith in a crowd to force her way up to Jesus, approaching him from behind so as to remain inconspicuous, and simply touching his garment. [13] When she did, two things happened: the flows of blood stopped and she was discovered.
“Most women or people with vaginas do have discharge from the vagina,” Dr. Alyssa Dweck, a New York-based gynecologist and co-author of The Complete A to Z for Your V, tells Yahoo Life. She ...
Vaginal discharge is not always present in yeast infections, but when occurring it is typically odorless, thick, white, and clumpy. [28] Vaginal itching is the most common symptom of candida vulvovaginitis. [28] Women may also experience burning, soreness, irritation, pain during urination, or pain during sex. [30]
In Christian tradition the churching of women, also known as thanksgiving for the birth or adoption of a child, is the ceremony wherein a blessing is given to mothers after recovery from childbirth. The ceremony includes thanksgiving for the woman's survival of childbirth, and is performed even when the child is stillborn, or has died unbaptized.