tumah

If I had to explain other concepts, such as tumah, tahara, taharas mishpoha, to a non-Jewish listener, you can bet it would take considerable forethought, and I have more than 40 years over this teenager.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Latest in the Rifqa Bary Case 2009

Corpse impurity was considered to be the most severe form of ritual impurity (avi avot ha-tumah), requiring sprinkling with waters of purification on the third and seventh days of the seven-day impurity.

Female Purity (Niddah). leBeit Yoreh 2009

She claims that taharah (purity) is a mask impersonating immortality while tumah is a mask of death.

Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009

Before the destruction of the Temple, when ritual purity was intimately connected with the Land of Israel and Temple practices, the laws of purity and impurity (tumah and taharah) were much more far-reaching than in contemporary times.

Mikveh. 2009

This article is the most poetic analysis of tumah (impurity) and one of the first in the feminist era.

Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009

So the purpose of the goat-sacrifice is to help cleanse the Tent of Meeting (and later the Temple), the Holy of Holies and the altar itself of ritual impurity (tumah).

a bissel Torah - Danya Ruttenberg 2004

It became very private over the years as the issues of tumah became less relevant, but that is not how it was meant to be ...

Israelated - English Israel blogs 2009

Here we have a kosher type of leisure - which up until recently was "not m'kabel tumah" in the eyes of da'as Torah - which could be a pro-Torah, G-dly escape, but no.

This is Babylon 2008

comcast nbc merger, comcastmasternation, mergers and acquisitions, nbc universal, it's not a tumah

Comcast Celebrates Conquest Of NBC With Gifts Of Sh*tty DVDs - The Consumerist 2009

b. tumah occurs in non-human, and even non-animate objects;

what is WRONG with me? - Danya Ruttenberg 2005