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Jesus drives out a demon or unclean spirit, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures. In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering [1] of Greek pneuma akatharton (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural pneumata akatharta (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in the Septuagint translates Hebrew ruaḥ tum'ah (רוּחַ ...
And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness. — Leviticus 15:2–3 This is followed by the laws relating to a zav : the impurity laws, the purification procedure when the flow has stopped, and the sacrifices to be offered after purification ...
The noun form of ṭum'ah is used around 40 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible and is generally translated as "uncleanness" in English language Bibles such as the King James Version and the New Jewish Publication Society of America Tanakh. [4] The majority of uses are in Leviticus.
John McEvilly points out that the spirit is called “unclean” since it delights in, and stimulates to, "acts of uncleanness". [6] See also
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.
The Hebrew Bible taught that any Israelite who touched a corpse, a Tumat HaMet (literally, "impurity of the dead"), was ritually unclean.The water was to be sprinkled on a person who had touched a corpse, on the third and seventh days after doing so, in order to make the person ritually clean again. [2]
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 ...
Berakhot (Hebrew: בְּרָכוֹת, romanized: Brakhot, lit."Blessings") is the first tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud.The tractate discusses the rules of prayers, particularly the Shema and the Amidah, and blessings for various circumstances.