Verses to recite when seeing a woman coming out of the mikveh
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Question
What verses should be recited when seeing a woman coming out of the mikveh?
Answer
This ruling applies to someone who sees a woman coming up from the river, not when seeing her coming out from the mikveh path (even though one should not look at her due to modesty, which may lead to improper thoughts). When seeing her coming up from the river, one should say: "He pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless waste. Also, say: He pours contempt on nobles and loosens the belt of the strong.
Source
Shach Yoreh De'ah, Siman 198, Sif-Katan 61, and these are his words: "We learn in the chapter of Arvei Pesachim (page 111a): one who encounters a woman at the time she ascends from the immersion of a mitzvah, if he first engages in relations, a spirit of immorality attaches to him; if she first engages in relations, a spirit of immorality attaches to her. What is the remedy? Let him say thus: He pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless waste, and this is in Psalms 107, and thus it is brought by Rokeach, but the author of Toldot Aharon does not cite the verse 'He pours contempt on nobles' but 'loosens the belt of the strong' in Job 12. In Pesachim 111 and in Psalms, nothing is cited, it seems that the Talmud did not have the text 'He pours contempt on nobles' etc., and in Yalkut, this Talmud is brought in Psalms and Job, therefore, both should be recited.