Immersion in the Mikveh for a Woman During the Seven Days of Mourning
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Question
A woman whose night of immersion falls during the days of mourning, can she go to immerse during the mourning period?
Answer
A woman should not immerse during the seven days of mourning, as she is prohibited from marital relations.
Source
In the Talmud, Taanit 13a: "It is taught: all who are obligated to immerse do so as usual on both Tisha B'Av and Yom Kippur." In Niddah 30a, it is stated that according to the first Tanna, immersion in its time is a mitzvah. Rabbi Yose bar Yehuda says: we do not say that immersion in its time is a mitzvah. Practically, the early authorities disagreed on whether immersion in its time is a mitzvah or not. Practically, it was ruled that immersion in its time is not a mitzvah except for fulfilling the mitzvah of procreation and the obligation of marital relations, but during the days of mourning, when marital relations are prohibited, immersion in its time is not a mitzvah. Moreover, in our days, women do not immerse in their time because they are stringent to observe seven clean days even in the case of niddah and not only zavah, and therefore this is not immersion in its time.
Thus ruled the Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah, Siman 381, Paragraph 5: "A niddah whose time of immersion falls during the days of mourning does not immerse