Tevul Yom is a tractate in the
Mishnah
The Mishnah or the Mishna (; , from the verb ''šānā'', "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah. Having been collected in the 3rd century CE, it is ...
and
Tosefta
The Tosefta ( "supplement, addition") is a compilation of Jewish Oral Law from the late second century, the period of the Mishnah and the Jewish sages known as the '' Tannaim''.
Background
Jewish teachings of the Tannaitic period were cha ...
; in most editions of the Mishnah, it is tenth in the order
Tohorot
''Tohorot'' () is the sixth and last order of the Mishnah (also of the Tosefta and Talmud). This order deals with the clean/unclean distinction and family purity. This is the longest of the orders in the Mishnah. There are 12 tractates:
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According to et seq., one who takes the prescribed ritual immersion remains impure until sunset. The degree of impurity in such a case is slight, and according to rabbinical interpretation, such a person renders neither the
dough offering
In Judaism, the dough offering (or separation of ''challah'', ) is an positive commandment requiring the owner of bread dough to give a part of the kneaded dough to a kohen (Jewish priest). The obligation to separate the dough offering (hencefort ...
nor sanctified flesh is unclean, even before sunset; it is merely rendered unfit (''pasul''). He may touch profane or unsanctified things without consequence. This tractate precisely defines the degree of impurity attaching to such a person, and stipulates how far the purity of anything is affected by his touch.
Contents
In the Mishnah, the tractate comprises four chapters, containing 26 paragraphs in all:
* Chapter 1: Laws concerning bread and other things which are of such a form that if a tevul yom or any other uncleanness touches part of them the whole is rendered impure.
* Chapter 2: Concerning liquids touched by a tevul yom; when such contact renders the whole unfit, and when it affects only the part touched.
* Chapter 3: Continuation of chapter 2: laws concerning liquids easily rendered impure.
* Chapter 4: Laws concerning utensils touched by a tevul yom; enumeration of halakhic rules which have undergone changes in the course of time; of the halakhic regulations which R. Joshua declared were introduced by the sages ("soferim"), and which he was unable to explain.
In the Tosefta, the tractate is divided into two chapters.
References
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Jewish ritual purity law