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Dietary Laws: Animals and and Impurity
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The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them: Speak to the Israelite people thus: These are the creatures that you may eat from among all the land animals: any animal that has true hoofs, with…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Kashrut, Animals, Food and drink, Purity, Ecology

Categories:

Law, Biblical Law, Religion & Theology
A Song That Ought to Be Sung Every Day
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I have experienced in yishuvim [Jewish communities—Ed.] that old women are unable to keep the commandment of nido [menstrual purity—Ed.] properly. When they examine themselves and find a spot of blood…

Contributor:

Elḥanan Kirkhhain

Places:

Kirchhain, Holy Roman Empire (Kirchhain, Germany)

Date:

1727

Subjects:

Purity, Women, Community, Kashrut, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Science & Philosophy, Ethics
Dispatch of Food
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[Greetings, PN,] from [PN]. [No]w, I [sen]t to you, saying: “Do not dispatch to me bread without it being sealed.” Lo, all the jars are impure. Behold, the bread which [you] dispatch[ed] to me…

Places:

Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

Early 5th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Food and drink, Purity, Kashrut, Diaspora

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters