Jewish notions of “Cleanliness” and “Holiness:” The Aryan as “Discharge” and “Leprosy” made clean by admixture
In Leviticus we find the Hebrew word tame, טָמֵא, meaning “uncleanliness.” Through the metaphors of Leviticus, tame appears to describe an “uncleanness” of a “moral” type. Typically it is understood as describing something or someone that is “ritually impure.” This, I will posit, is a meaning much closer to a contemporary Jewish understanding of what […]
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