This article is about the sixth order of the Mishnah. For the tractate, see Tohorot (tractate).
Tohorot (Hebrew: טָהֳרוֹת, lit. 'Purities') 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:[1]
Keilim: (כלים "Vessels"); deals with a large array of various utensils and how they fare in terms of purity. 30 chapters, the longest in the Mishnah.
Oholot: (אוהלות "Tents"); deals with the uncleanness from a corpse and its peculiar property of defiling people or objects either by the latter "tenting" over the corpse, or by the corpse "tenting" over them, or by the presence of both corpse and person or object under the same roof or tent.
Nega'im: (נגעים "Plagues"); deals with the laws of the tzaraath.
Parah: (פרה "Cow"); deals largely with the laws of the Red Heifer (Para Adumah).
Tohorot: (טהרות "Purities"); deals with miscellaneous laws of purity, especially the actual mechanics of contracting impurity and the laws of the impurity of food.
Mikva'ot: (מקואות "Ritual Baths"); deals with the laws of the mikveh.
Niddah: (נידה "Separation"); deals with the Niddah, a woman either during her menstrual cycle or shortly after having given birth.
Makhshirin: (מכשירין "Preliminary acts of preparation"), the liquids that make food susceptible to tumah (ritual impurity).
Zavim: (זבים "Flows"); deals with the laws of a person who has had abnormal genital discharge.
Tevul Yom: (טבול יום "Immersed [on that] day") deals with a special kind of impurity where the person immerses in a mikveh but is still unclean for the rest of the day.
Yadayim: (ידיים "Hands"); deals with a Rabbinic impurity related to the hands.
Uktzim: (עוקצים "Stalks"); deals with the impurity of the stalks of fruit.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "ṬOHOROT". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
Tohorot (Hebrew: טָהֳרוֹת, lit. 'Purities') is the sixth and last order of the Mishnah (also of the Tosefta and Talmud). This order deals with the clean/unclean...
tractate on the red heifer, which is the tractate Parah ("cow") in Seder Tohorot, which explains the procedures involved. The tractate has no existing Gemara...
Mishnah Acharonah on Tohorot (Rav Efrayim Yitzchok from Premishla) Sidrei Tohorot on Kelim and Oholot (the commentary on the rest of Tohorot and on Eduyot is...
accepted before being quickly exposed). In both Talmuds, only one tractate of Tohorot (ritual purity laws) is examined, that of the menstrual laws, Niddah. The...
ʾOhaloth (אוהלות, literally "Tents") is the second tractate of the Order of Tohorot in the Mishnah. It consists of eighteen chapters, which discuss the ritual...
Tractate Niddah in the Mishnah is the only tractate from the Order of Tohorot which has Talmud on it. The Jerusalem Talmud is incomplete here, but the...
(Hebrew: כֵּלִים, literally "Vessels") is the first tractate in the Order of Tohorot in the Mishnah. It contains thirty chapters, making it the longest tractate...
name of a treatise in the Mishnah and the Tosefta, included in the order Tohorot. The Pentateuchal law (Num. 19) decrees that a red heifer, "wherein is...
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "ṬOHOROT". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
