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Ablution (Immersion)

From the Encyclopedia Judaica 2:81-82 Ritual immersion, or ablution, carries great symbolic significance in Judaism, representing a transformation from a state of impurity to a

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Mikveh

A collection of water A pool or bath of clear water, immersion in which renders ritually clean a person who become ritually unclean through contact

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Red Heifer

The Animal whose ashes were used in ritual purification of persons and objects defiled by a corpse (Num. 19) While the English term heifer means

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