New answers tagged tamei-tahor-ritual-purity
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One way to look at Tuma is that it is a lack of holiness. When a women gives birth she has less life inside her, and thus less holiness.
When she gives birth to a girl she lost more holiness than with a boy because the girl inside her also has the capacity to grow life.
http://www.613design.com/tti/articles/tahara-tuma.pdf
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Rabbi Isaac ben Sheshet was asked (Responsum 425) why no rabbinic edict requiring unmarried women to regularly purify themselves in the Mivka was ever enacted in order to minimize the transgressions of those who engage in extra-marital sexual contact. (I note the whole basis of the question is that in the days when women regularly or even semi-regularly were ...
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there is a custom among even single umarried men to go to the mikva every friday before shabbat.
I have heard people say they cannot feel the holiness of shabbat without going to the mikve.
I once read that Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky was asked if it is bitul torah (Wasted time) if a bachelor yeshiva student goes to the mikva frequently. he responded that on ...
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Even if we were to assume that plastic is not Mekabel Tum'ah according to what the Rambam writes in Hilchos Tum'as Meis 13:3&4 it would not help to block the Tum'ah.
Halacha 3:
These substances convey ritual impurity and intervene in the face of it: over sized wooden vessels, keilim made from stone, animal turds, or earth that are over sized, simple ...
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Based on this article there are a number of points to consider
Anything that absorbs tumah cannot serve as a separation (Rema to Yoreh Deah 371:1)
Anything that is metal or even plated with metal absorbs tumah (see note 15 in article)
If someone enters a forbidden area in a "box or tower that moves through the air" he becomes tameh because a moving ...
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Anything which can contract impurity cannot block impurity from passing through it (Megillah 26b, Shulchan Aruch YD 371:1). A vessel can only contract impurity if it is made from cloth, sackcloth, leather, bone, wood, metal, or earthenware (Rambam Keilim 1:1, see Leviticus 11:32-33 and Numbers 31:22). Plastic therefore cannot contract impurity, so it can ...
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