#tumah

[jdsquared]

Menachot 24a

[ask-jumblr]

Wondering whether conservative and orthodox have modern rules re tumah and handling dead animals. (Had a euthanasia training lab this morning, involving cadavers.) Does it count as contact with a carcass if you're using modern PPE?

FOR: Conservative, Orthodox

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

So if a woman bleeds because she doesn't have a baby it's a loss of life, but if she bleeds because she DOES have a baby it's "still loss of soul vis a vis her"? I'm sorry but that sounds like some really contradictory, sexist, anti-women BS based on the fact that ancient rabbis didn't know the difference between menstrual blood and labor/afterbirth blood. Saying a woman experiences a loss of life for giving birth implies that women are nothing but vessels and not people. How awful.

No, it’s not saying that at all, you’ve drawn your own conclusions and made your own value judgments based on preconceived notions about Orthodox Judaism being sexist. I don’t think you particularly took time to think through what I said at all, because absolutely nowhere did I say that being niddah is negative, and those 2 situations are not contradictory, they are logically consistent (which was the whole point of that post).

For the record, a man who has a nocturnal emission is also tamei. So is someone who slept. It has nothing to do with sexism or rabbis not being able to distinguish between different types of uterine blood.

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[fatfreeshitsicles]

i am way too cute to feel this much pain

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

A period is literally your body's way of flushing out hormones and stuff you're not using though. Why do our periods make us unclean?

"Unclean" is a bad translation, as is "ritually impure," though the latter is slightly closer to the Hebrew, which is why I use it when an English translation is necessary. People’s perception that tamei means unclean leads to a huge misperception of Judaism’s view on menstruation. We do not view it as gross or dirty, unlike what is implied by the English word “unclean.”

Let’s go back to ayekah’s two examples of using the toilet and menstruation.

When you use the toilet, you are getting ride of waste and toxins that were never going to be good for anything in your body. You are clearing out your body of this waste.

On the other hand, while menstruation may at first appear to be a similar concept, the difference is that what you are expelling during menstruation had the potential not just to be useful, but to be incredibly holy - for what is more holy than creating a new life? No, you don’t need the uterine lining any more for that month, but that is specifically because the potential for new life was not utilized. Now it’s important to note that I do not mean to imply that it’s BAD if a woman doesn’t get pregnant every month - menstruation is not a punishment or a sign that she did something wrong, and in fact Judaism fully acknowledges that relations within a marriage that do not result in pregnancy still have value for the couple - relations are not solely for procreation.

Nevertheless, potential new life is associated with kedusha, and the “death” of that potential (obviously nothing actually died in a case where the egg was not fertilized, but still there is a vestige of death in the loss of potential) is associated with the opposite, with a temporary loss of kedusha. So that’s why menstruation makes her tamei. That’s also why a man who has an emission becomes tamei, even if this was an occurrence in his sleep (in which case he obviously had no control over it, so one could not say he did anything wrong). Again, this does not mean she is unclean/dirty…she is tamei, it is a spiritual concept related to loss of kedusha and does not exist in any other language.

[isipkoreana-blog]

Mahirap ibalik ang mga bagay na WALA Na

[ghostniggaz-blog]

It's not a tumah!

Arnold Schwarzenegger