Q.  Our Pastor taught us that a women during their menstruation period are to live in a separate housing unit apart from the house. I want to know your thoughts on how it should be worked out.

A.  While it is not proper to have relations with your spouse during her period (Lev 18:19), there is nothing indicating she should be living in some other housing during it today. Some of the prohibitions during the Exodus would have been due to a lack of water (they were without any at least two different times) and some of the other laws of separation were due to the Tabernacle being there with them, Lev. 15:31. They were even to go to the bathroom outside their dwellings and cover it with dirt. We have to ask ourselves, is this what we are commanded to do today or was it instructions (laws) at that time due to the circumstances they were in? Many of the laws were hygiene oriented to prevent diseases, but others were more ceremonial in nature.
    Today, we do not have the physical Tabernacle, and the physical Temple, such as was standing before 70CE, is no longer in Jerusalem. We are told in the New Testament that we are a living Temple in which Yahweh dwells, 2 Cor. 6:16. Would a woman in the faith be unclean with the first menstrual issue after baptism and therefore have defiled the Temple? What would a sister in the faith do during Passover, if she is told she cannot attend? Will she be cut off? Could she take a second Passover of which a number of reasons were acceptable (Num. 9:6-14)? Wouldn’t the timing of the menstrual period be the same? These are questions one needs to ask. If we answer honestly, we do not need to put a sister out in other housing during her menstrual period and she could be in attendance to partake of the New Testament Passover emblems.
    Today, we have plenty of water and feminine supplies, such as pads and tampons, which are readily available and can keep diseases at bay. During the Exodus it was a matter of physical cleanliness, but today it is a matter of spiritual cleanliness. Today there is not a standing Temple to go to, but those of us who have Yahweh’s Spirit dwelling within are the Temple, 1 Cor. 3:16. This may be of some further help: https://yaiy.org/literature/OrthodoxBelievers.html

 
                   
         
     
                   
               
                         
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