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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the level above it. The levels are: Avi avot hatumah (grandfather of impurity) - a human corpse Av HaTumah (father of impurity) - Maimonides enumerates...
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heifer ceremony could have had any contact with the dead or any form of tumah, and implements were made of materials such as stone, which in halakha do...
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an Av HaTumah, something able to transfer uncleanliness. In addition, his actual zav discharge, saliva, semen, and urine are also deemed to have Av HaTumah...
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Light on the Weekly Torah Portion – From the Writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook'. Urim Publications. p. 188. ISBN 965-7108-92-6. Jeremiah 17:13...
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Niddah (redirect from Taharat ha-Mishpahah)
Ṭohorat ha-bayit (in Hebrew). Vol. 1–3. Jerusalem: Meʼor Yiśraʼel. OCLC 20658501. Medieval Responsa Literature on Niddah: Perspectives of Notions of Tumah by...
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Mikveh 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...
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Corpse uncleanness (redirect from Tum'at HaMet)
the dead Impurity of the land of the nations Ritual washing in Judaism Tumah and taharah Kegare Judaism portal Maimonides, Mishneh Torah (Hil. Tum'ath...
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dignity]". Harefuah (in Hebrew). 141 (5): 479–82, 496. PMID 12073533. HaTalmud V’Chochmat HaRefuah (Berlin 1928 p. 336-8) title at hebrewbooks.org, p. 339-341...
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from 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...
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