Cleanness
51cleanliness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. cleanness, neatness, purity, tidiness, trimness, spruceness, nattiness, immaculateness, spotlessness, dapperness, fastidiousness, finicality, orderliness, freshness, whiteness, daintiness, disinfection, sanitation,… …
52neatness — (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Neatness in persons] Syn. cleanness, tidiness, orderliness; see cleanliness . 2. [Neatness in things] Syn. cleanness, clearness, correctness; see order 3 , system 1 …
53Judah ha-Nasi — (late 2–early 3rd century) Patriarch and editor of the Mishnah. Judah was born into a family of Palestinian scholars and became the most erudite teacher of his time and the head of the bet din (rabbinical court). Feeling that the Jews under… …
Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament
54purity — n 1. genuineness, realness, naturalness, unartificiality; authenticity, realism, naturalism; unadulteratedness, unaffectedness, unspuriousness; flaw lessness, faultlessness, perfection; homogeneity, integrity, excellence, Biol. homozygosis. 2.… …
55purity — /ˈpjurəti / (say pyoohruhtee) noun 1. the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from extraneous matter or from anything that debases or contaminates: the purity of drinking water. 2. freedom from any admixture or modifying addition. 3.… …
56BET HILLEL AND BET SHAMMAI — BET HILLEL AND BET SHAMMAI, two schools of exposition of the Oral Law, named after hillel and shammai who lived at the end of the first century B.C.E. and the beginning of the first century C.E. These two schools existed from the time of these… …
57JONATHAN BEN AMRAM — (late second and early third century), sage of the transitional period between the tannaim and the amoraim and a pupil of judah ha nasi . He is rarely mentioned in the Talmud (some two or three times). The Talmud relates that once, during a… …
58KELIM — (Heb. כֵּלִים; vessels ), first tractate of the Mishnah order of Tohorot. Including vessels of all kinds, the term also embraces clothing, furniture, and weapons – indeed any artifact, utensil, or implement. This tractate deals in 30 chapters… …
59LEPROSY — The term ẓaraʿat is traditionally rendered leprosy because of its translation by Greek lepra (LXX, New Testament, and Josephus). The Greek covers a wide range of diseases that produced scales. Greek lepra may have included true leprosy, i.e.,… …
60TEMPLE SCROLL — TEMPLE SCROLL, scroll of the dead sea sect . In 1967 yigael yadin acquired for the Shrine of the Book, through the generosity of the Wolfson foundation, a scroll which almost certainly came from the Qumran caves. It is one of the most important… …