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Impurity after childbirth is the concept in many cultures and religions that a new mother is in a state of uncleanliness for a period of time after childbirth, requiring ritual purification. Practices vary, but typically there are limits around what she can touch, who she can interact with, where she can go, and what tasks she can do.
While Leviticus 12:6–8 required a new mother to bring a burnt-offering and a sin-offering, Leviticus 26:9, Deuteronomy 28:11, and Psalm 127:3–5 make clear that having children is a blessing from God; Genesis 15:2 and 1 Samuel 1:5–11 characterize childlessness as a misfortune; and Leviticus 20:20 and Deuteronomy 28:18 threaten ...
Taking the bride to the bath house, Shalom Koboshvili, 1939. Male Wudu Facility at University of Toronto's Multifaith Centre.. Ritual purification is a ritual prescribed by a religion through which a person is considered to be freed of uncleanliness, especially prior to the worship of a deity, and ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness.
A person who had relations with a niddah, zavah, or yoledet (mother after giving birth) A utensil designed for sitting which was sat on by a Niddah, yoledet, zavah, zav (and possibly metzora) Liquids expelled from inside the body (e. g., spit, blood, but not sweat) of a niddah, yoledet, zavah, zav (and possibly metzora)
A korban olah was also made as a sin offering on the appointment of a priest, [32] on the termination of a Nazirite's vow, [33] after recovery from tzaraath, [34] by a woman after childbirth, after recovery from a state of abnormal bodily discharges, [35] a gentile's conversion to Judaism, or as a voluntary sacrifice, when the sacrificial ...
Corpse uncleanness (Hebrew: tum'at met) is a state of ritual uncleanness described in Jewish halachic law.It is the highest grade of uncleanness, or defilement, known to man and is contracted by having either directly or indirectly touched, carried or shifted a dead human body, [1] or after having entered a roofed house or chamber where the corpse of a Jew is lying (conveyed by overshadowing).
List of clean and unclean animals (Leviticus 11) Laws of purification and atonement (Leviticus 12, Leviticus 13, and Leviticus 15) Laws interpreting the Holiness Code: The prohibition against consuming the naturally dead (Leviticus 17:15-16) The order to make trespass offerings after sexual involvement with an engaged slavewoman (Leviticus 19: ...
A subsequent seven clean days are then required, culminating in a ritual and temple offering before the zav is clean of his malady: Now in case the one having a running discharge would become clean from his running discharge, he must then count for himself seven days for his purification, and he must wash his garments and bathe his flesh in ...