Daily Talk
The Rambam insists that the body's rhythms are not obstacles to holiness but the very medium through which holiness is practiced.
The Wisdom Written in the Body
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About This Talk
In Issurei Biah chapters 6 through 8, the Rambam moves from the technical counting of niddah and zivah days to the remarkable concept of vesetot — established menstrual patterns. What emerges is a vision of the human body as a site of divine instruction, where biological rhythm becomes spiritual discipline, and where the act of paying attention to physical reality is itself a form of worship.