Egyptian-Hebrew stream·Mishnah·Treatises XLIII. Bechoroth to LX. Tebul Yom (synopses)
Synopses: from the Firstborn to the Tebul Yom
Synopses of the last eighteen tractates: Bekhorot (firstborn), Arakhin (valuations), Temurah (substitution of consecrated animals), Keritot (excisions), Meilah (sacrilege), Tamid, Middot, Kinnim, then the laws of ritual purity through Tebul Yom (one immersed but awaiting sundown).
Source context
- Theme
- Tannaitic halakhic regulation of firstborn animals, ritual purity grades, and boundary cases of sacred-profane distinction across eighteen Mishnaic tractates
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Cross-tradition
- Levitical priestly code (Hebrew Bible)The tractates Bechoroth through Tebul Yom systematically elaborate the biblical legislation on firstborn consecration (Exodus 13, Numbers 18) and graduated purity states (Leviticus 11–15), translating scriptural categories into operative rabbinic case-law.
- Vedic ritual purity gradations (dharmaśāstra)Cross-tradition congruence appears in the dharmaśāstra treatment of degrees of ritual impurity and purificatory waiting-periods, which structurally parallels the Mishnah's elaboration of tebul yom (one who has immersed but awaits sunset) as an intermediate purity state.
Treatises XLIII. Bechoroth to LX. Tebul Yom (synopses)
[Relates to the firstborn of human beings, and of animals. Laws founded on Exod. xiii. 12, 13; and Num. xviii. 15–18.]
# VALUATIONS.
[Contains laws relating to objects consecrated to Divine worship, founded on Lev. xxvii. 2; and also, to vows, founded on Lev. xxvii. 28.]
# SUBSTITUTION.
[Contains laws relating to consecrated animals that have had others substituted in their stead, founded on Lev. xxiv. 10 and 33.]
# EXCISIONS.
[Relates to offences which, if wantonly committed, are punished by excision, but which, if inadvertently committed, entail the obligation to bring sin or trespass offerings.]
# TRESPASS.
[Contains laws relating to objects that have been consecrated and converted to profane uses, founded on Num. v. 6–8.]
# CONTINUAL OFFERINGS.
[Contains laws relating to the daily sacrifices, founded on Exod. xxxiv. 38–42; and on Num. xxviii. 3.]
# MEASUREMENTS.
[Alludes to the size and dimensions of the Temple, and its various parts; related by an eye-witness, R. Eleazar ben Jacob, assisted by Abbah Saul.]
[Relates to birds for sacrifices.]
Which closes Seder Kedoshim.
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# LEGAL PURIFICATIONS; CONTAINS
[Laws relating to things liable to contract and to communicate uncleanness, founded on Lev. xi. 11–32; and Num. xix. 14, and xxxi. 20.]
[Contains laws relating to uncleanness arising from a corpse, founded on Num. xix. 14.]
[Contains laws relating to uncleanness arising from leprosy, and other contagious diseases, founded on Lev. xiii. and xiv.]
[Has laws relating to the red heifer, founded on Num. xix.]
[Relates to minor impurities, according to their various degrees.]
[Contains laws that relate to diving baths for the cleansing of persons and utensils, founded on Num. xxxi. 23.]
[Contains precepts regulating the conduct of, and intercourse with, women, during their menses, after child-birth, and generally at their periods of separation [נדה] and uncleanness, founded on Lev. xii. 1–6; xxv. 19–31.]
[Relates to the laws and rules of purification, founded on Lev. xi. 36–38.]
[Has laws relating to fluxes, founded on Lev. xv.]
[Relates to purifications by ablution on the day the uncleanness has been contracted. Laws founded on Lev. xvii. 15, and xxii. 6, 7.]
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