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Isaac Klein's A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice, a comprehensive guide frequently used within Conservative Judaism, also addresses Conservative views on other uses of a mikveh, but because it predates the 2006 opinions, it describes an approach more closely resembling the Orthodox one, and does not address the leniencies and views those ...
Mei hatat - water into which ashes of the red heifer were mixed; People who were involved in the red heifer procedure and in certain procedures of the Yom Kippur sacrifices; Niddah - a menstruant woman; a man who has had sex with such a woman; the woman's blood, spit, and urine; objects which she has sat, reclined, or rode upon
Shabbat Shirah (Hebrew: שבת שירה, lit. 'Shabbat of Song') is the name given to the Shabbat that includes parashat Beshalach. The Torah reading of the week contains the Song of the Sea (Book of Exodus 15:1–18). This was the song by the Israelites after crossing the Red Sea. There is no special Torah reading.
In contemporary times, all people are considered to be defiled by a type of "impurity" (Hebrew: טומאה tumah) which can only be purified through the ritual of the red heifer (Hebrew: פרה אדומה parah adumah). It has not been possible to perform this sacrifice since the destruction of the Second Temple.
Bedikah example. In the Orthodox Jewish community, women may test whether menstruation has ceased; this ritual is known as the hefsek tahara.The woman takes a bath or shower near sunset, wraps a clean white cloth ("bedikah cloth") around her finger, and swipes the inner vaginal circumference.
Those five, perfectly unblemished red heifers landed in Israel in September 2022, a feat that cost around $500,000 when you factor in the first-class plane tickets for rabbis to come examine the ...
A silver washing cup used for netilat yadayim Ancient mikveh unearthed at Gamla. In Judaism, ritual washing, or ablution, takes two main forms. Tevilah (טְבִילָה) is a full body immersion in a mikveh, and netilat yadayim is the washing of the hands with a cup (see Handwashing in Judaism).
Also found were school exercises and merchants' account books, as well as communal records of various sorts. [23] The normal practice for genizot (pl. of genizah) was to remove the contents periodically and bury them in a cemetery. Many of these documents were written in the Aramaic language using the Hebrew alphabet.