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	Purity
		Jesus Christ exalts purity to the realm of the spirit, a type of purity that is far greater than the ritual purity of ceremonial cleansing seen in Jewish and other religions.
		In this context, purity is a characteristic of a believer in fellowship who has experienced the "cleansing from all unrighteousness" promised in 1 John 1:9 to the one who confesses sin to God.
		Purity is brought into the Christian's life and maintained through (1) Confession of sins which maintains fellowship with God and (2) edification, which is the basis for growth in all areas, including having victory over sin.
	www.realtime.net /~wdoud/topics/purity.html (1159 words)

	Ritual purification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The other laws of ritual purity are usually not followed, as they with ritual purity in the land of Israel, and the Temple in Jerusalem, which is no longer extant.
		However, these terms actually describe a state of ritual applicability in regards to fulfilling biblical commandments, such as those associated with the Temple in Jerusalem, the cultic function of Kohanim (priests), and sexual relations within in a Jewish marriage.
		In Ayyavazhi a ritual purification of one's mind and body called Thuvayal Thavasu,was formulated by Ayya Vaikundar and were practiced by Santror.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ritual_purification (479 words)

	Ritual Purity - Woman's Rebirth
		Through this activity she emerges in a state of purity and ritual cleanliness together with her potential to create new life.
		Purity and cleanliness and impurity and uncleanliness also apply to man in terms of his moral self and in relation to the system of family purity that woman keeps in place.
		In observing this ritual purity she prepares herself physically and emotionally for this "rebirth." In Judaism, marriage and family purity are based on holiness and the sanctity of God's name.
	www.mesora.org /ritualpurity.html (904 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ritual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Their existence as a priestly caste dates to the late Vedic period, and they have long been considered to be of greater ritual purity than members of other castes and alone to be capable of performing...
		Funerals and baptisms, ordinary and otherwise: ritual criticism and Corinthian rites.
		Ritual and religius experince: William James and the study of 'alternative spiritualities.'.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Ritual&StartAt=61 (901 words)

	JewishGates.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		According to our tradition, a woman was ritually impure during her menses and for seven days after (the rules concerning the seven days after menstruation developed during the Talmudic period, when it was noted that touching a woman during that time could lead to death).
		The Baraita de Niddah was a rabbinic work concerning ritual purity, first mentioned by RaMBaNand probably known to the geonim and the German-French talmudists of the 13th century.
		The concern was and is for ritual purity, and the regulations have been carefully prescribed.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=808 (853 words)

	The Ritual and Spiritual Purity
		In Islamic laws, ghusl is considered an act of worship; it is an act of purifying oneself from the ritual impurity (najasat) caused by sexual intercourse, discharge of semen or blood, and by touching the dead body.
		The ritual bath given to a dead Muslim before burial is also known as ghusl.
		For example, for purifying oneself from the ritual impurity of sexual intercourse, one has to make the niyyat that `he is doing ghusl janabat'.
	www.al-islam.org /ritualandspiritual/4.htm (1478 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.12.06
		Ritual impurity includes defilements arising from typically unavoidable impurities such as birth, death, sex, disease and other circumstances that reflect the conditions of normal life.
		In the last section of this chapter, H. discusses the ritual impurity of idols, with the aim of refuting Alon's assertion that Gentile ritual impurity is a pre-rabbinic halakhah rooted in the impurity of idols.
		She also stresses that the idea of the ritual impurity of idols is a rabbinic innovation rather than a pentateuchal tradition.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-12-06.html (2064 words)

	Brown Classical Journal
		The purity of both the officiant and the surroundings are pervasive to all forms of Sanskrit ceremonialism and is central to the efficacy of the puja.
		Purity allows for the officient to have the credibility and power to invoke the deity and also a means to show requisite respect and reverence to the deity being invoked.
		The phenomena of congregational ritual is clearly not a new phenomena in the U.S. Various forms of congregationalism in the context of Sanskrit rituals have existed for centuries, including the Vaidika samiti, sagdhi, gosthi and the Buddhist sangha that all precede the earliest known immigrants to America.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Classics/bcj/16-09.html (6914 words)

	Purity of Heart
		Speaking of purity in the moral sense, that is, of the virtue of purity, we use an analogy, according to which moral evil is compared precisely to uncleanness.
		It follows that the concept of purity and impurity in the moral sense is in the first place a general concept, not a specific one.
		Matthew 15:18-20 does not limit purity to one area of morality, namely, to the one connected with the commandment, "You shall not commit adultery" and "Do not covet your neighbor's wife," that is, to the one that concerns the relations between man and woman, linked to the body and to the relative concupiscence.
	www.ewtn.com /library/PAPALDOC/JP2TB49.HTM (1557 words)

	Biblical Cleanness
		Breaks in the skin or discharges likewise violate boundaries and are ritually unclean.
		The interest in ritual purity represents a larger interest in the wholeness of the social order; maintaining order on one scale contributed to keeping order on a larger scale.
		In spite of your chauvinism, you still may be a ritual thinker.
	www.tektonics.org /af/cleanman.html (556 words)

	Ritual Density in Qumran Practice: Ablutions in the Serekh Ha-Yachad
		Ritual density, it can be said, is the degree to which ritual plays a role in the life/piety of any given society; otherwise put--the ratio of ritual to other aspects of life in the day-to-day operations of a community.
		Purity rites, with their ebb and flow between defilement and holiness, reflect a cogent theology of what constitutes death, life and the passage from one to the other.
		Ritual immersions would not merely have been performed at annual transitions in the initiation and penal processes (first scenario), nor at the conclusion of those processes, when admittance was finally offered to mashqeh along with tohorah (second scenario).
	orion.mscc.huji.ac.il /symposiums/10th/papers/daise.htm (3790 words)

	THE WALK OF PURITY
		Understanding the Hebrew rites and rituals is a long journey for us that were not exposed to the teaching at an early age, and I dare say that not all that have had the privilege of experiencing them for most or all of their life, see the significance of their teaching as related to Yeshua/Jesus.
		Immersion is the act of washing performed to correct a condition of ritual impurity and restore the impure to a state of ritual purity.
		Ritual purification or immersion is a Hebrew ritual, commanded by G-d and must be viewed in that perspective.
	www.haydid.org /walkofpurityintro.htm (2413 words)

	Jewish Laws of Purity in Jesus’ Day by Marvin R. Wilson - JerusalemPerspective.com
		Thus, the lengthy periods of seclusion mandated by their ritual uncleanness, as well as their responsibilities at home, led to a general non-participation of women in the public activities of community religious life.
		Scripturally, one is either in a state of purity, or not in a state of purity.
		Ritual cleanness and uncleanness should not be thought of as a contrast between good and evil.
	www.jerusalemperspective.com /Default.aspx?tabid=27&ArticleID=1456 (1696 words)

	Udo Schaefer: In a Blue Haze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In a discussion of morals, purity means moral perfection, the integrity of an individual's inner being from the worldly influences that are seen as "defiling".
		Beyond ritual purity, during all His prophetic service Muhammad educated His people to a state of cleanliness which was always seen as a symbol for the purity of the soul and of the heart.
		Ritual purity and cleanliness, however, are only prerequisites and complementary components of this inner purity, this purity of the heart and of the soul that, as a leitmotif recurring throughout the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, is the goal of our earthly life.
	bahai-library.com /books/bluehaze/7.html (3423 words)

	Alavi Bohras - Tahaarat (Ritual Purity) - Ghusl (The Ritual Bath)
		When this ritual bath becomes obligatory on you, then you're reciting of the Qur'an, going to the mosque or ziyaarat, taking the meal, fasting is unlawful without taking the bath.
		This ritual bath is obligatory in two instances; first when during wakefulness a man and a woman meets, where there is no sexual intercourse or meeting of two circumcised parts, and if a man or a woman ejaculates, then ghusl is obligatory on both of them.
		On the contrary, if the blood is thin and watery not matching to the characteristics of menstrual blood, she should insert a piece of cloth or a cotton pad in her private part as a precaution against bleeding and she should perform ablution before every prayer and her husband has access to her.
	www.alavibohra.org /GHUSL.htm (1940 words)

	JDCC News - Feature: The Ritual Bath Experience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ritual Purity, known as the 'Mikvah', means a "collection of water".
		It is a ritual bath used for spiritual purification.
		The code of Family Purity, Taharat Hamishpacha, states that a couple must refrain from physical contact upon the onset of the period (when the woman becomes a Niddah) until seven days following the end of her menstruation, to renew intimacy.
	www.jdcc.org /2000/mar-apr/feature.htm (741 words)

	Zipple.com - The Jewish Supersite - Zipple in the Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		We are taught in the Torah portion of Parshas Parah that the kohain was commanded to slaughter the heifer and sprinkle its sacrificial blood outside the Bais Hamikdash's walls.
		Atonement from the golden calf experience was, in fact, a prerequisite for ritual purity.
		Ritual impurity was intended to assist one in detaching himself from his physical cravings.
	www.zipple.com /torah/dvar_for_parah.shtml (1330 words)

	summary04
		Purity is primarily a means to prepare people spiritually, physically, and mentally for an encounter with the divine presence.
		To the question, “Did the historical Jesus observe or disregard ritual purity?” some participants felt that there was no New Testament evidence to justify concluding that Jesus dismissed or opposed the purity system per se, although there is also no evidence that he practiced ritual purity at his own fellowship meals.
		Therefore, ritual purity is a sign of human commitment to justice and an ethical life.
	www.bc.edu /research/cjl/meta-elements/sites/partners/cbaa_seminar/summary04.htm (1343 words)

	the ritual and spiritual purity 1 - 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		non-Muslim society, and a chapter "From Ritual to Spritual" which attempts to relate the ruitual purification to the spritual purification.This chapter is in response to a need which I observed in the Muslim communities of various places with whom I have been working during the last seven years.
		After all, it is the Qru'an which testifies to their spiritual purity of highest category by saying, "Verily Allah intends to purify you, O the Ahlu'lbayt, a thorough purification".
		The differences, if any, among the other present mujtahids on the matters of ritual purity are on the level of makruh and mustahab, but not the level of wajib and haram.
	www.rafed.net /books/other-lang/spiritual/01.html (3271 words)

	Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal - Sermon by The Rev. Roger A. Balk, Ph.d. June 30, 2002
		Their content will force us to re-examine some of the themes which became the darling of the Reformers such as the conflict between ritual and cult on the one hand and justice on the other found in the prophets are the same as those put forward by Paul in his contrast between Law and Gospel.
		The requirement for demanding this ritual has nothing to do with human behavior as such but is solely the result of who God is. The point is (as we might say it) that while Abraham may be a good guy, he is in terms of what becomes Jewish theology IMPURE.
		The debate going on which is reflected in the New Testament and in the Talmud and later resumed by Mohamed is the continuous one about how to achieve justice in societies which have become both insulated and isolated from God so that they fail to understand the nature of their corruption.
	www.montreal.anglican.org /cathedral/english/sermonbalk2002_06_30.htm (1255 words)

	Ritual (Forerunner Commentary) :: Bible Tools
		This does not mean the various washings to attain a ritual purity were useless either to the ancient Israelites or to us under the New Covenant.
		Purity is closely associated with God's election of His people, for by His grace He confers purity to them.
		He was angry that they went through the rituals without the humility to submit to His great moral law in their daily lives.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/cgg/ID/496 (1196 words)

	How unclean were tax-collectors? Biblical Theology Bulletin - Find Articles
		In fact, Jewish purity laws did not lead to social demarcation, since impurity was permitted except when entering the Temple, and purification when required was available to all, including tax-collectors.
		Commentators have often said that this criticism arose from considerations of ritual purity, which was especially important in the sharing of meals.
		In the ritual purity system of Judaism, there are only three instances of an impurity-source causing all contents of an enclosed space to become unclean even without physical contact with actual objects.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0LAL/is_2_31/ai_94332332 (688 words)

	Ritual cleanliness.--Ummah.comComparative Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Purity of heart is the precondition of the vision of God.
		The sacrament of Baptism is of course a purification ritual, as are all of the sacraments.
		As with most rituals, washing of hands is an external symbol for an internal event, in this case a symbolic means of preparing and purifying oneself for meaningful and intentful (kavannah) prayer.
	www.ummah.org.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=43099 (2561 words)

	Divine Purity and Demoniac Power: A Semiotic definition of Transgressive Sacrality (main) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Concealment of his ‘purified’ ritual(ized) speech (IV.3: gûDha-pavitra-vâNih) and behavior (IV.2: gûDha-vratah) by the erudite ‘Brahman par excellence’ (mahâ-brâhmaNa), who thereby seeks to transform his knowledge into consummate penance (III.19, IV.1), suggests that much of his incoherent rambling was only the comic disguise assumed by the enigmatic bráhman, whose “purest” essence was Omkâra (V.27: vâg-vizuddhah).
		Hence, transgression acquires a sacred dimension only when it is subordinated to a suprahuman aim, either explicitly or through its inscription in a symbolic context which, by paradoxically juxtaposing and especially infusing them with the values of the interdictory sacred, charges even the crudest profanities with a transcendent significance.
		Though apparently suffering from exaggerated timidity, constant allusions, often teasingly by his royal patron himself, are made to the formidable (magical) powers of the mock-heroic VidûSaka, who brandishes the crooked (kuTilaka) weapon of Brahmâ in phallic gestures of displaced aggressivity ultimately aimed at the protectress of the heroine, the mythical Sarasvatî, incestuous daughter of Brahmâ(-Prajâpati).
	www.svabhinava.org /dikshita/PurityPower/PurityPower-main.html (1349 words)

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		Purity is a part of a more holistic process of cosmic order and balance within which humans should strive to live harmoniously.
		Snan or ritual ablution works to clean physical dirt and absolve religious impurity through the presence of or association with spiritual power.
		The terms purity and impurity stand for the moral, bodily, and cosmic states tied to the religious concerns of Hindus.
	www.auburn.edu /~alleykd/envirolitigators/casteimpurity.htm (209 words)

	paul's rebuke of peter...has the new testament misrepresented it and the incident at antioch #9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But the Pharisees held that even outside the temple, in one's own home, the laws of ritual purity were to be followed in the only circumstances in which they might apply, namely, at the table.
		It is important to note that Jesus was not condemning the Pharisees for their ritual purity and their efforts in such regards, he was however, rebuking their religiosity at the expense of weightier matters of their faith; namely, the issues of the heart and their neglect of loving-kindness to the poor and downtrodden.
		As to the purity ritual we may simply note that the practice of Jewish ritual cleansing outside Palestine is presumed by the Epistle of Aristeas 305-6, and that such purifications are described as characteristic of Jews as a people by the Sibylline Oracles 3.592-3 and Josephus, Against Apion, 2.23, 24 §§198, 203.
	www.returntofaithofjesus.netfirms.com /antiochno9.htm (1943 words)

	Some of the Rulings on Ritual Purity (taharah) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A: He should assume the ritual purity of their bodies as long as he does not know that their ritual impurity (najasah) was acquired from an external source.
		In that case, is the ruling of transformation (istihalah) applicable (to it) and (is the soap) ruled to be ritually pure, or does it remain ritually impure?
		A: This precludes neither the permissibility of consuming its meat nor its ritual purity, if it is slaughtered in the Islamic manner.
	qaem.org /cgi-bin/articles/jump.cgi?ID=52 (540 words)

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