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to both foods and drink (in the case of foods, at a downgraded level, but in the case of drinks, at the very same level).
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to another person or object, such as clothing (usually at a downgraded level of
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named in Leviticus 11:29-30, or a seminal issue (Leviticus 15),
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is generally a person or object that is listed in the
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Index

Judaic
Ritual purity in Judaism
Menorah
Tumah and taharah
Mikveh
Netilat yadayim
Mikveh
Red heifer
Hefsek taharah
Hagalah
Tevilat Kelim
Av HaTumah
Midras
Keri
Niddah
Tzaraath
Zav
Zavah
Corpse uncleanness
Tumath eretz Ha'Amim
Prohibition of Kohen defilement by the dead
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tumah and taharah
corpse uncleanness
carrion
D'Oraita
eight creeping things
inter alia

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