• concept of zavah, as well as the tumah status of a niddah. The liberal view held that the concepts of ṭumah and ṭaharah are not relevant outside the context...
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  • In Torah and Rabbinic law, a hefsek taharah ("pause" to initiate "purity") is a verification method used in the Orthodox Jewish community by a woman who...
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  • In the realm of tumah and taharah terminology, the term Av HaTumah ("father of uncleanness," or simply Av) is a rabbinic term for a person or object that...
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    made in modern times by Jews wishing for Jewish ritual purity (see tumah and taharah) and in anticipation of the building of the Third Temple to locate...
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  • spring, and bringing certain korbanot (sacrifices). In the realm of tumah and taharah law, the zav has the ability to create a midras and is prohibited...
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  • of niddah is essentially composed of two parts: the ritual purity (tumah and taharah) aspect and the prohibition of sexual intercourse aspect. The Biblical...
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  • their genitals, is known as the impurity of a zav. In the realm of tumah and taharah, the zavah, just like a niddah (menstruant woman) and yoledet (woman...
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  • dead Impurity of the land of the nations Ritual washing in Judaism Tumah and taharah Kegare Judaism portal Maimonides, Mishneh Torah (Hil. Tum'ath Met...
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  • Judaism   Tumah and taharah Mikveh Purification methods Netilat yadayim Mikveh Red heifer Hefsek taharah Hagalah Tevilat Kelim Hierarchy Av HaTumah Midras...
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    Niddah Ritual purification Ritual washing in Mandaism Tevilat Keilim Tumah and taharah Wudu Leviticus 15:13 Leviticus 15:11 Psalms 26:6 Exodus 30:18–20 Babylonian...
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    have a mikveh for immersing a body during the purification procedure (taharah) before burial. Immersion for men is more common in Hasidic communities...
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    to eliminate problems of tumas meis ("impurity from the dead"; see Tumah and taharah) in an enclosure, and a low wall surrounds the graves and keeps the...
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  • Leviticus 13:20, 13:25 Leviticus 13:22, 13:27 Maimonides, Mishnah Torah, Taharah, Hilchot Tuma'at Tzaraath 8:1 Mishnah Nega'im 3:5 Leviticus 13:42 Leviticus...
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  • if performed under circumstances that were holy (Q-D-Š) and pure, tumah and taharah (טומאה וטהרה). The concern of overstepping Judaism's strong prohibitions...
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  • Judaism   Tumah and taharah Mikveh Purification methods Netilat yadayim Mikveh Red heifer Hefsek taharah Hagalah Tevilat Kelim Hierarchy Av HaTumah Midras...
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  • Ritual purification Ritual purity in Islam Romani society and culture Tumah and taharah "Mahrime". RomArchive. Retrieved 2023-03-02. "Gypsy Law: Romani Legal...
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    washing hands, before eating a piece of food which has been dipped in a liquid (e.g. water, honey, oil, etc.) which then clings to that piece, with the one...
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    leprosy) in the Hebrew Bible. The person was deemed "impure" (see tumah and taharah) during their affected phase and is ultimately treated by the kohen...
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    pressure-uncleanness pertains only to objects that ordinarily are used to bear weight or pressure, that is, beds and chairs and things analogous to them v t e...
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  • entering a cemetery or attending a funeral; not being under the same roof (i.e. in a home or hospital) as a dismembered organ. The rules and regulations...
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  • טומאת ארץ העמים) is a rabbinic edict stipulating a specified degree of tumah (impurity) on all lands outside the Land of Israel. The demarcation lines...
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    Biblical law and post-Biblical Jewish religious discourse surrounding tumah and taharah, the impurity is called in Hebrew tumat yoledet. Halakhah treats a...
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  • clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of sprinkling; and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make to go through the water." v t e...
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    Tevillas Keilim & Hechsher Keilim (Kashering)". Chicago Rabbinical Council. Archived from the original on May 26, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013. v t e...
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    leprosy (Leviticus 14:3), involving spiritual purity (the concepts of tumah and taharah), extensive physical cleansing, and personal hygiene, but also includes...
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    Heifer), chapter 3, halachah 4 (Egypt, circa 1170–1180), in, e.g., Mishneh Torah: Sefer Taharah: The Book of Purity, translated by Eliyahu Touger (New York:...
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  • Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot Shabbat 30:14 Leviticus 15:16–18; see also Tumah and taharah Aharon Lichtenstein, "Of Marriage: Relationship and Relations" Brachot...
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    purified. There are two forms of impurity in Judaism (see Tumah and taharah): ritual impurity (e.g. when one touches a corpse) and moral impurity (when one...
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    preparation of the deceased's body according to Jewish rites (see Tumah and taharah). It is an example of neoclassical architecture, built by Joseph Kornhäusel...
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