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The Talmud used the requirement of handwashing in Leviticus 15:11, "The person who is touched by one who has a discharge without rinsing his hands in water must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening," as a hint for general handwashing law, using the principle of asmakhta or "allusion."
In the Mishnah, Yadayim is divided into four chapters, containing 22 paragraphs in all. Chapter 1: The quantity of water necessary to purify the hands by pouring it over them (§ 1); the vessels from which the water may be poured over the hands (§ 2); kinds of water which may not be used to purify the hands, and persons who may perform the act of manual ablution (§§ 3-5).
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).
The general concept of a midras, an object becoming a carrier for uncleanliness, is brought in the book of Leviticus, though the following verse does not employ the Hebrew term midras; Anyone who touches his bed must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. —
The Hebrew translation started in 1965 and was completed in late 2010. The Hebrew edition contains the standard text of the Talmud with vowels and punctuation in the middle of the page. [ 1 ] The margins contain the standard Rashi and tosafot commentaries, as well as Steinsaltz's own translation of the Talmud text into modern Hebrew with his ...
Parah (Hebrew: פָּרָה) is the name of a treatise in the Mishnah and the Tosefta, included in the order Tohorot.The Pentateuchal law (Num. 19) decrees that a red heifer, "wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke," shall be burned and her ashes mixed with spring water, that the compound so obtained may be used to sprinkle and cleanse every one who becomes unclean.
PDF image of a public domain book, for use at Wikipedia and Wikisource: Solomon Ibn Gabirol, The Improvement of the Moral Qualities (Tikkun Middot ha-Nefesh). Medieval Hebrew translation by Rabbi Judah Ibn Tibbon in 1167. This edition was published in 1869.
An unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel. A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a ...