Animals whose bodies convey impurity in Jewish law
In Judaism, the eight sheratzim (Hebrew שמונה שרצים), typically translated as the "eight creeping things", are animals described in Leviticus 11:29–30, which have special laws in regard to ritual impurity and Shabbat.
In Judaism, the eightsheratzim (Hebrew שמונה שרצים), typically translated as the "eight creeping things", are animals described in Leviticus 11:29–30...
becomes impure. A person who touches or shifts the carcass of one of the eightsheratzim. A vessel or clay oven upon which falls one of these carcasses becomes...
such an oven susceptible to uncleanness had the corpse of one of the eightsheratzim fallen into the airspace of the oven. Mulder-Heymans, Noor (2002)....