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Last updated May 18 2023.
purcy
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purcy 17 year member
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Zav and Zavah are states of ritual impurity in Judaism arising from abnormal bodily discharge; for men the state is termed zav, and for women it is termed zavah.
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May 22 2008, 11:31 AM
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Mainly has to do with the secretion of dead cells from the human body. Specifically semen in men and blood in women.
Leviticus 15 is the written source for the laws:
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In modern day Hebrew the word "zav" is still used to describe secretion of bodily matter: "zav dam" means "bleeding" and "zav khotem" means "has running nose" (also used as a derogatory term for a good-for-nothing) and "ziva" means "syphilis".
Response last updated by gtho4 on May 18 2023.
May 22 2008, 12:35 PM
