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...

as a corpse, or who are overshadowed by something which also overshadows a corpse, they would also suffer corpse uncleanness and remain unclean for seven...

Halakhah?. p. 141. The pertinent classification of uncleanness called Midras- or pressure-uncleanness pertains only to objects that ordinarily are used...

impurity), second in severity only to corpse uncleanness. Anything suffering from Av HaTumah ("Father of uncleanness"), such as carrion, the blood of a menstruate...

Israel where graves were unmarked, and who may inadvertently contract corpse uncleanness and thereby eat their bread-offering (Terumah), unawares, in a state...

forbidden to have sexual contact with her husband. Corpse uncleanness, or coming into contact with a corpse, is considered the ultimate impurity. It cannot...

argued that the corpse should be cleansed carefully, including the ears and fingers, with nails pared and hair combed, so that the corpse could be laid...

donating blood. To remove corpse uncleanness after participating in a funeral procession or coming within four cubits of a corpse Some have the custom of...

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...

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,...

any man hath an issue out of his flesh, his issue is unclean. And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or...

graveyard, he still contracts a level of uncleanness. However this is less than the impurity of touching corpse, and although he must be sprinkled with...

the specific purpose of ensuring that they never came into contact with a corpse: There were courtyards in Jerusalem built over the virgin rock and below...

was limited by a complex set of purity laws. Persons suffering from corpse uncleanness were not allowed to enter the inner court. Non-Jews were also prohibited...

which dates around 5050 BC. The oldest known naturally mummified human corpse is a severed head dated as 6,000 years old, found in 1936 at the Cueva de...

refer to forms of uncleanliness in Leviticus. For example, in Leviticus, if a man takes his brother's wife, then that is "uncleanness", niddah. The five...

Israel. It was used in the ritual for cleansing from leprosy and corpse uncleanness, as well as for the burning of the red heifer. In Psalms, the sprinkling...

with cedar and ezov which also appear in the ceremony of purification from corpse-impurity (Numbers 19), represent the symbolic return of the metzora to life...

ashes of two Red heifers used in purifying those who had contracted corpse uncleanness. In what is seen as yet another one of John Hyrcanus's accomplishments...

ritually unclean had then touched them, the fruits become defiled. All people nowadays are presumed to be impure due to corpse uncleanness, so terumah...

the Kohen who performed the red heifer ritual; one who has contacted a corpse or grave, in addition to having the ashes of the red heifer ritual sprinkled...

blind) Noahide laws You shall not murder Yetzer hara Ritual purity Corpse uncleanness Handwashing Mikveh Niddah Ritual washing Modesty Negiah Yichud Mechitza...

HaTumah Midras Sources of Impurity Keri Niddah Tzaraath Zav Zavah Corpse uncleanness Tumath eretz Ha'Amim Prohibition of Kohen defilement by the dead v...

At the end of the second seven years she became ritually impure by corpse uncleanness, and she had to repeat her Naziriteship, thus being a Nazarite for...

HaTumah Midras Sources of Impurity Keri Niddah Tzaraath Zav Zavah Corpse uncleanness Tumath eretz Ha'Amim Prohibition of Kohen defilement by the dead v...

infant or juvenile kohen is likewise forbidden from becoming unclean by contact with a corpse, while the adult must ensure that the juvenile or infant kohen...

blind) Noahide laws You shall not murder Yetzer hara Ritual purity Corpse uncleanness Handwashing Mikveh Niddah Ritual washing Modesty Negiah Yichud Mechitza...

yoledet (postpartum), is in a state of major impurity, and creates midras uncleanness by sitting and other activities (Leviticus 15:4, 15:9, 15:26). Another...

whose ashes were used in purifying those who had been defiled by corpse uncleanness. An oral teaching preserved in the Tosefta (Parah 3:6) relates that...

the uncleanness from a corpse and its peculiar property of defiling people or objects either by the latter "tenting" over the corpse, or by the corpse "tenting"...