Some believed that contact with a person who was menstruating “might cancel a charismatic individual’s miraculous power.” Marcus points to the third-fourth century A.D. story Hekhalot Rabbati “in which a rabbi on a heavenly tour…is immediately brought down to earth by another rabbi placing on his knees a piece of wool that had been touched very slightly by a menstruating woman who had been declared pure by a majority of the rabbinical court.”[7]