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...

the level above it. The levels are: Avi avot hatumah (grandfather of impurity) - a human corpse Av HaTumah (father of impurity) - Maimonides enumerates...

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...

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...

Ṭohorat ha-bayit (in Hebrew). Vol. 1–3. Jerusalem: Meʼor Yiśraʼel. OCLC 20658501. Medieval Responsa Literature on Niddah: Perspectives of Notions of Tumah by...

Judaism   Tumah and taharah Mikveh Purification methods Netilat yadayim Mikveh Red heifer Hefsek taharah Hagalah Tevilat Kelim Hierarchy Av HaTumah Midras...

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...

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...

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...

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...