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	Ablution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ablution may refer to the practice of removing sins, diseases or earthly defilements through the use of ritual washing, or the practice of using ritual washing as one part of a ceremony to remove sin or disease.
		Ablution is also mentioned in the Book of Exodus, chapter number 40 and verses number 31 to 32: 31 - And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat.
		Ablution is part of the prescribed procedure for removing ritual impurity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ablution (1203 words)

	Ablution - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ablution was used as one part of a legal proceeding, symbolizing that a person was not guilty of a crime.
		Ablution remains valid for up to twenty-four hours (or in case of a journey, three days) and is nullified if blood, pus or vomit is drawn, if one urinates, passes wind or stool, or falls into deep sleep.
		A full body ablution, ghusl, is carried out after sexual intercourse, the termination of a woman's menstrual cycle or when one first becomes a Muslim.
	www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /default.asp?t=Ablution (509 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - ABLUTION: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There are three kinds of Ablution recognized in Biblical and rabbinical law: (1) Washing of the hands, (2) washing of the hands and feet, and (3) immersion of the whole body in water.
		The rite of Ablution forms part of the system of purification practised at all times and in all lands by such as strive for holiness or for a communion with the Deity.
		It may have a twofold object: (1) the cleansing of the body from impurity, first in a physical sense, and then on a higher stage in a symbolical sense, and (2) the preparing of the body for a higher degree of holiness.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=338&letter=A (2779 words)

	Mitzvah - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The word is used in Judaism to refer to (a) the laws enumerated in the Torah (five books of Moses), or (b) any Jewish law at all.
		Judaism regards the violation of the mitzvot to be a "sin"; but note that the Jewish understanding of "sin" differs from that of other religions, see violations of Jewish law.
		Among the latter are: (1) the benediction, or thanksgiving for each enjoyment; (2) ablution of the hands before eating; (3) lighting of the Sabbath lamp; (4) the 'Erub, on preparation for Sabbath transfer; (5) the Hallel liturgy on holy days; (6) the Hanukkah lights; and (7) the reading of the Esther scroll on Purim.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Mitzvah (856 words)

	Islam In The Bible
		The ablutions of Islam are of three basic types: dry ablutions under special circumstances, ablution of head, hands and feet, and finally washing of the entire body.
		Since the practice of ablution is not described in the New Testament, even in the case of full-body ablution or baptism, we are constrained to rely on the text of the so called Old Testament for details of its execution.
		Although there may be some minor variation in its details, ablution is maintained throughout in the form of total immersion or washing on one hand, and the washing of the extremities on the other.
	al-islam.org /islaminthebible/14.htm (5767 words)

	Tevilah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Those within Conservative Judaism widely observe the rituals related to Netilat yadayim; using a mikvah when converting to Judaism, washing one's hands during the Passover seder, and tahara.
		Immersion in a Mikvah (pool of "living water"), when a married Jewish woman immerses herself a week after her Niddah period concludes following menstruation and she wishes to resume conjugal relations with her husband.
		The ritual of immersing in a Mikvah is required in Orthodox Judaism the day before (eve of) Yom Kippur.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ablution_in_Judaism (496 words)

	Jewish services - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to the standard view held by Orthodox Judaism, each service was instituted parallel to a sacrificial act in the Temple in Jerusalem: the morning Tamid offering in the morning for the morning, the afternoon Tamid for the afternoon prayers and the overnight burning of the leftovers for the evening prayers.
		Judaism has traditionally counted only men in the minyan for formal prayer, on the basis that one does not count someone who is not obligated to participate.
		Conservative Judaism has developed a blanket justification for women leading all or virtually all such prayers, holding that although only obligated individuals can lead prayers and women were not traditionally obligated, Conservative Jewish women in modern times have as a collective whole voluntarily undertaken such an obligation [1].
	enc.qba73.com /link-Jewish_services (4796 words)

	Jewish holiday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Judaism is old enough that it is simultaneously a religion, a system of ethics, a social ideology, and a trans-national quasi-citizenship.
		In Conservative Judaism, the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards has issued several responsa (legal rulings) which hold that the prohibitions against weddings in this timeframe are deeply held traditions, but should not be construed as binding law.
		Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism hold that halakha (Jewish law) is no longer binding, so weddings may be held on any of these days.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_holiday (3980 words)

	WORLD RELIGIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Judaism, Christianity and Islam stress belief in One God with it is possible to communicate, who cares about those who believe in him, whose worship can give meaning to the believer's life, and who can reward the believer with continued life after he dies on earth.
		The one major disadvantage to Judaism of the rise and growth of Islam was that the unity and tradition of Israel were endangered.
		The conflict between reform and counter-reform movements threatened to destroy Judaism altogether, for many Jews, faced with a choice between a conservative religion and that rejected the changing times and a liberal religion that was empty of faith and discipline, chose neither and simply assimilated themselves into the dominant culture.
	www.westmarkschool.org /teachers/WorldReligions.html (22127 words)

	THE PRECIOUS INSTRUMENT: A Study of the Concept of Law in Judaism and Evangelicalism
		As soon as he is healed arrangements are made for his ablution, when two learned men must stand by his side and acquaint him with some of the minor commandments and with some of the major ones.
		Judaism was an entire religion with all of the components in it that make up a religion: a world-view, ethical standards, cultus, domestic rituals, and so on.
		And this is then taken to support the view that Judaism is essentially a legalistic religion which, because of the inescapability of human sinfulness, left its people in a hopeless situation of either falsely believing themselves righteous or despairing in their guilt.
	wesley.nnu.edu /wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/21-25/22-02.htm (9737 words)

	DOC Transitional Services Division Handbook of Religious Beliefs: A - M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Judaism, the religion of the Jewish people, is the oldest of the three major western monotheistic religions and so is the ancestor of both Islam and Christianity.
		Basic to Judaism is a dynamic that is based on the sense that God´s revelation is contained in both a written and oral Torah-Scripture and its ever-growing body of commentary and interpretation.
		Orthodox Judaism is the traditionalist approach that believes in the divine origin of the Torah, which is seen as the changeless revelation of God´s eternal will and therefore fully authoritative.
	www.oregon.gov /DOC/TRANS/religious_services/rs_handbook01.shtml (10262 words)

	Ablution in Judaism - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		These customs are most commonly observed within Orthodox Judaism.
		Mikvah ("[Immersion in a] pool of water"), when a married Jewish woman immerses herself a week after her menstrual period concludes and she wishes to resume conjugal relations with her husband.
		Ablution in Judaism, External links and Jewish law and rituals.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Ablution_in_Judaism (476 words)

	Water is Life - Global Water Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There are three sorts of ablutions: The first and most important involves washing the whole body; it is obligatory after sex, and recommended before the Friday prayers and before touching the Koran.
		When water is scarce, followers of Islam use sand to cleanse themselves; this is the third form of ablution.
		Judaism- Jews use water for ritual cleansing, to restore or maintain a state of purity.
	academic.evergreen.edu /g/grossmaz/MURPHYMW (929 words)

	Ablution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		pl:Ablucja Ablution may refer to the practice of removing sins or diseases through the use of ritual washing, or the practice of using ritual washing as one part of a ceremony to remove sin or disease.
		In Islam, Wodoo or ablution is observed by Muslims preceding each prayer, if one is in a state of impurity.
		A full body ablution is carried out after sexual intercourse or if one intends to visit the local places of worship.
	www.choam.info /title/ab/ablution.html (536 words)

	UNCW Troubled Waters: Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ablutions in Christianity are mainly baptism and the washing of fingers and communion vessels after the communion.
		The second ablution is wudu, the minor ablution, which is performed to remove minor ritual impurity from everyday life.
		In Temple times ablutions were practised by priests, converts to Judaism as part of the initiation rites and by women on the seventh day after their menstrual period.
	www.uncwil.edu /troubledwaters/activities/activity_14.htm (2211 words)

	Mitzvah - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Template:Jew Mitzvah (Hebrew: מצווה, "commandment"; plural, mitzvot; from צוה, tzavah, "command") is a word used in Judaism to refer to (a) the commandments, of which there are believed to be 613, given in the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) or (b) any Jewish law at all.
		According to the teachings of Judaism, all moral laws are, or are derived from, divine commandments.
		More generally, in Judaism, it is viewed that proselytes, on being initiated into Judaism, must be familiarised with commandments both of great and of small importance (Yeb.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Mitzvot (1342 words)

	Ablution - Definition, explanation
		Ablution may refer to the practice of removing sins or diseases through the use of ritual washing, or the practice of using ritual washing as one part of a ceremony to remove sin or disease.
		The Christian practices of baptism and foot-washing are instances of ablution.
		Physical cleanliness before Allah (God) is deemed a necessity and purification is intended for not only one's soul, but body as well.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/ab/ablution.php (558 words)

	Talmud Mas
		If he performed the prescribed ablution but had not been circumcised, R. Joshua said, ‘Behold he is a proper proselyte; for so we find that the mothers53 had performed ritual ablution but had not been circumcised’.
		The Sages, however, said, ‘Whether he had performed ritual ablution but had not been circumcised or whether he had been circumcised but had not performed the prescribed ritual ablution, he is not a proper proselyte, unless he has been circumcised and has also performed the prescribed ritual ablution.
		A heathen, bought as a slave by a Jew, had to submit to circumcision and ritual ablution and thereby acquired partly the status of a Jew: in respect of observances he was on the same footing as Jewish women and minor sons.
	www.israelect.com /reference/WillieMartin/Inter-34.htm (4667 words)

	Alluvial
		In Judaism, ablution is the process of washing away physical and mental impurities.
		Ablution is approximately 20 minutes in length and packaged in a 5-inch sleeve.
		"Ablution" is also made of static high frequencies similar to the noise of pressure in water tubes, metallic tampering, rustling and shaking glass and stones - presumably.
	www.alluvialrecordings.com (2326 words)

	Union and Unity in Hinduism and Judaism
		The specificity of unity through union in Judaism is thus defined by the dialectical tension between these two conflicting exigencies: the universalizing political sovereignty under the historical banner of the one invisible yet "masculine" YHWH (Sperling, pp.
		The real focus of Judaism was hence never so much the external sacrifice but the promise of the universal, uninterrupted and direct accessibility of the inner experience encoded within it.
		Despite its radical response to the crisis of Judaism by underlining the human sacrifice at the core of the Temple and postponing the political ideal till the second coming of the Messiah, Christian imperialism has served, in its own way, to generalize this internalization of the "final" sacrifice even among the pagans.
	www.svabhinava.org /union/UnionSunthar/unionsun.html (7369 words)

	Babylonian Talmud: Yebamoth 46
		Similarly here, the ritual ablution of the slave, for the purpose of procuring his manumission, cancelled his obligations to his idolatrous master, and ipso facto to his Jewish master who is only the representative of the former and can lay no greater claim to the slave than he.
		Unless some outward mark of slavery accompanied the ablution the slave can procure his manumission by making a declaration, while he is still in, the water, that he performs his ablution for the purpose of procuring thereby his freedom.
		The ablution completes the initiation and thus effects the proselyte's improvement, which is an act forbidden on the Sabbath.
	www.come-and-hear.com /yebamoth/yebamoth_46.html (3210 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mohammed and Mohammedanism (Islam)
		The four points relating to morals, or practice, are: (a) prayer, ablutions, and purifications; (b) alms: (c) fasting; and (d) pilgrimage to Mecca.
		It is hardly necessary here to emphasize the fact that the ethics of Islam are far inferior to those of Judaism and even more inferior to those of the New Testament.
		The history and the development, as well as the past and present religious, social, and ethical condition of all the Christian nations and countries, no matter of what sect or school they may be, as compared with these of the various Mohammedan countries, in all ages, is a sufficient refutation of Noldeke's assertion.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10424a.htm (3984 words)

	Qwika - similar:Ablution_in_Judaism
		Mikvah (or mikveh) (Hebrew: מִקְוָה; Tiberian Miqwāh, Standard Hebrew Miqva) (plural, mikvaot) is a "ritual bath" used for immersion in a purification ceremony within Judaism.
		Its main use nowadays is by Jewish women to achieve ritual purity after menstruation or childbirth.
		Immersion in a mikvah is also required during a traditional conversion to Judaism and in some cases for pots and...
	www.qwika.com /rels/Talk%3AAblution_in_Judaism (326 words)

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		Thirdly, when water is scarce, followers of Islam use sand to cleanse themselves; this is the third form of ablution.
		Judaism: Jews use water for ritual cleansing to restore or maintain a state of purity.
		These ablutions can be washing the hands, the hands and the feet, or total immersion which must done in 'living water', i.e.
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	Living Religions of the West - S. Daniel Breslauer
		Monotheism in Judaism: JCM 4; JMC 7, pp.
		The idea of the messiah is important in Judaism as proof that God keeps his covenant with the Jews even if they often disobey their part of the covenant.
		Worship and Ritual in Judaism: JCM 10; JMC 19, pp.
	www.aarweb.org /syllabus/syllabi/b/breslauer/living_religions_of_the_west-breslauer.htm (18134 words)

	Paula Fredriksen's From Jesus to Christ
		Sanders provides approximate measurements that give a sense of the sheer size of the place: the total circumference of the outermost wall ran to almost 9/10ths of a mile; twelve soccer fields, including stands, could be fit in; when necessary (as during the pilgrimage festivals, especially Passover) it could accommodate as many as 400,000 worshipers.
		A notable characteristic of the current phase of the quest of the historical Jesus is the degree to which it draws upon the accomplishments in history, historiography and archaeology that have marked the past half-century of Jewish Studies.
		Jesus, and by extension Christianity, was "good"; the Judaism of Jesus’ contemporaries — and especially of his opponents (the scribes, or the Pharisees, or the priests) was "bad." In effect if not intent, such descriptions perpetuate the long Christian tradition of scholarly anti-Judaism.
	www.bibleinterp.com /articles/fredricksen_JesustoChrist.htm (6753 words)

	Jewish holidays
		Jewish holiday, (or Yom Tov or chag or ta'anit in Hebrew) is a day that is holy to the Jewish people according to Judaism and is usually derived from the Hebrew Bible, specifically the Torah, and in some cases established by the rabbis in later eras.
		The first seder is after the 14th of Nisan since in Judaism, a day begins at nightfall, so the first seder is thus on the night of the 15th, the second seder is held on the night of the 16th of Nisan.
		When she moved to northern Michigan, Wendy Weckstein traded a large synagogue with daily services and activities for a tiny one with about 50 families and a part-time rabbi.
	www.measuroo.com /rel-J/Jewish_holidays.php (2457 words)

	Judaism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Such attempts to expand a general understanding of Judaism in the larger society is especially significant in relation to issues involving Jewish children in the public schools.
		Another part of conversion is a ritual ablution in a Mikvah (the ritual bath used periodically among the Orthodox for purification, esp.
		Judaism does not accept them as Jewish and is very concerned about such subversive attempts to proselytize to Jews.
	www.nv.cc.va.us /home/lshulman/Rel232/JEWNOTES.htm (5716 words)

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