Title: The Religious Meaning of Bodily Excretions in Rabbinic Judaism: the Halakhah On Leviticus Chapter Fifteen: Zabim and Niddah
Abstract: THE RELIGIOUS MEANING OF BODILY EXCRETIONS IN RABBINIC JUDAISM: THE HALAKHAH ON LEVITICUS CHAPTER FIFTEEN: ZABIM AND NIDDAH Jacob Neusner (Bard College) i. Bodily Excretions In the halakhah of the Oral Torah we deal with semen or vaginal blood that cannot carry out the purpose that by nature the one or the other realizes, which is participation in the process of procreating life. Such non-productive semen, such vaginal flow outside of the normal cycle of procreation-these violate their own innate teleology. They do so on their own, not by man's or woman's intervention. Of such violations of the natural law
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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