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  2. Tumah and taharah - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The Hebrew noun ṭum'ah, meaning "impurity", describes a state of ritual impurity. A person or object which contracts ṭum'ah is said to be ṭamé ( טמא ‎ Hebrew adjective , "ritually impure"), and thereby unsuited for certain holy activities and uses ( kedushah , קְדֻשָּׁה‎ ‎ in Hebrew) until undergoing predefined ...

  3. Ritual purity in Islam - Wikipedia

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    The Quran says: "In it there are men who love to observe purity and Allah loves those who maintain purity." [Quran 9:108] and there is one verse which concerned with Taharah or purity and impurity of Humans: "O you who have believed, indeed the polytheists are unclean, so let them not approach al-Masjid al-Haram after this, their [final] year.

  4. Zavah - Wikipedia

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    In the realm of tumah and taharah, the zavah, just like a woman who is a niddah or yoledet , is in a state of major impurity, and creates midras uncleanness by sitting and other activities (Leviticus 15:4, 15:9, 15:26).

  5. Av HaTumah - Wikipedia

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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 is in a state of tumah (ritual impurity), second in severity only to corpse uncleanness.

  6. Taharah - Wikipedia

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    Taharah may refer to: Tumah and taharah, ritual impurity and purity in Judaism; Taharah, ritual purity in Islam; See also. Tahara (disambiguation)

  7. Zav - Wikipedia

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    In the realm of tumah and taharah law, the zav can create a midras and is prohibited from entering specific areas of the Temple Mount. The impurity of zav is unique in that it cannot be purified by immersion in a normal mikveh, but rather requires immersion in a spring of Living Water. [1]

  8. Impurity after childbirth - Wikipedia

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    Within the realm of Biblical law and post-Biblical Jewish religious discourse surrounding tumah and taharah, the impurity is called in Hebrew tumat yoledet. Halakhah treats a yoledet (woman who gives birth) similarly to any woman with niddah status. In some Jewish communities, ceremonies and a degree of seclusion were applied to postparturient ...

  9. Tahara - Wikipedia

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    Tumah and taharah, the state of being ritually impure and pure in Judaism Tohorot, the sixth and last order of the Mishnah; Tahara, a stage of bereavement in Judaism; Taharah, the aspect of ritual purity in Islam