Bride with Persistent Bleeding During Intercourse — Ro'ah Machmas Tashmish Ruling

Date: Erev Shabbos Kodesh, Parashas Pekudei 5567

From: Rabbi Moshe Sofer

To: Rabbi Moshe Leib

Description

A newly married bride who continued bleeding during intercourse claimed to sense blood issuing from the uterus itself. The Chasam Sofer rules stringently: if she felt pesichas pi hamakor she is a niddah on a Biblical level, and if she felt only a flow, the chazakah that blood exits only with hargashah — masked here by the sensation of intercourse — precludes leniency. He effectively confirms her status as a ro'ah machmas tashmish, offering no basis to attribute the blood solely to dam besulim.

Source: Shu"t Chasam Sofer YD §146

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