Order of Purities

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The Order of Purities is a major division of the Mishnah and Talmud that deals primarily with Jewish laws of ritual purity and impurity.

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Order of Purities canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish legal text section
division of Mishnah
division of Talmud
order of the Mishnah
associatedWith rabbinic Judaism
linked to: Rabbinic Judaism
canonicalStatus one of the six orders of the Mishnah
one of the six orders of the Talmudic tradition
dealsWith Temple-related purity laws
classification of levels of impurity
everyday purity practices
means of attaining purity
focusesOn laws of immersion in a mikveh
laws of impurity of foods
laws of impurity of liquids
laws of impurity of persons
laws of impurity of tents and corpses
laws of impurity of vessels
laws of menstrual impurity
hasComponent Mishnah tractates
Talmudic discussions (mainly Mishnah and Tosefta, with limited Gemara)
Tosefta material
hasTractate Kelim
linked to: Pirot kilims

Makhshirin
Mikvaʾot
Negaʿim
Niddah
linked to: tractate Niddah

Oholot
Parah
Tevul Yom
Tohorot (tractate)
Uktzin
Yadayim
Zavim
language Hebrew
nameInHebrew טהרות
linked to: Tohorot
partOf Mishnah
Talmud
positionInMishnahOrders sixth
religiousTradition Judaism
scripturalBasis Torah laws on purity and impurity
subjectMatter Jewish law
ritual impurity
ritual purity
timePeriodOfComposition Tannaitic period
transliteration Tohorot

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Seder Tohorot nameMeaning Order of Purities