Seder Tahorot

Vessels - tools, utensils, appliances, furniture, and clothing - and their statuses in purity laws.

The spread of a corpse’s impurity through contact, carrying, or dwelling under the same roof.

Tzaraat, a discoloration condition on skin, houses, or clothing, purification for the infected.

Burning of a red heifer and mixing of its ashes with spring water to be used for purification.

How food, drinks, objects and people become impure and spread impurity.

Ritual baths and the process of immersing in them to become pure.

The ritual impurity of a woman in her menstrual cycle or experiencing particular discharges.

Water, oil, milk, wine, honey, dew, or blood touching food and rendering it susceptible to impurity.

Abnormal bodily discharges and the impurity they generate.

The status of a person in the time between their immersion in a mikvah and sunset of that day.

Rabbinic decree to wash hands before eating due to assumed impurity of the hands.

Stems and other attachments to food, their susceptibility to impurity.

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