Hilchos Niddah Excerpt: Harchakos When a Husband Is Ill and Categories of Choleh

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Im hu chayah. Ve'ein loi mi sheyishamshenu zulaso, muteres l'shamsho; it's mutar for her to mishamesh him. Dak shetizaher b'yoser shetuchal l'hizaher, meichatza panav, yadav v'raglav, v'hatzaas hamitah bifanav. What does it mean if he's a choleh? You know, in halacha, four categories of choleh sheyesh bo sakanah, choleh she'ein bo sakanah but it's sakanas ever, choleh she'ein bo sakanah, klal, and choli mechush b'alma. The hainu, choli that the person is going to die, or there's a choli category too, which the person is going to lose a limb. Choleh is that a person not necessarily is going to die or lose a limb, but he's sick. And then there's meichush b'alma, that he's just not feeling well. A headache is a meichush.