Seder Tohorot

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Seder Tohorot is the sixth order of the Mishnah, dealing primarily with the complex laws of ritual purity and impurity in Jewish law.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Seder Taharot (except Niddah) 1
Seder Tohorot canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf order of the Mishnah
rabbinic legal corpus
canonicalStatus part of the six canonical orders of the Mishnah
composedIn Land of Israel
linked to: Eretz HaKodesh
dealsWith degrees of impurity
impurity of bodily emissions (zav, zavah)
impurity of foods and liquids
impurity of hands
laws of impurity of tents and corpses
laws of impurity of vessels
laws of menstrual impurity (niddah)
laws of mikvaot (ritual baths)
laws of susceptibility to impurity (hechsher ochalin)
leprous afflictions (tzaraat)
partial immersion status (tevul yom)
purification processes
red heifer ritual (parah adumah)
hasCommentary Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah
Rabbeinu Ovadia of Bertinoro's commentary
Rambam Mishneh Torah (as codification)
linked to: Mishneh Torah

Talmud Yerushalmi (partial)
linked to: Talmud Yerushalmi

Tosafot Yom Tov
hasNoBavliGemaraForMostTractates true
hasTractate Keilim
Makhshirin
Mikvaot
Negaim
Niddah
Oholot
Parah
Tevul Yom
Tohorot
Uktzin
Yadayim
Zavim
influenced later halakhic codes on purity
language Mishnaic Hebrew
mainSubject ritual impurity
ritual purity
tumah and taharah
nameMeaning Order of Purities
numberOfTractates 12
partOf Mishnah
positionInSeries sixth order of the Mishnah
relatedTo Temple service laws
laws of sacrifices
religiousTradition Judaism
timePeriod Tannaitic era

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tosefta hasPart Seder Tohorot
Talmud Yerushalmi doesNotInclude Seder Taharot (except Niddah)
linked to: Seder Tohorot