Oholot
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("Tents"). Second tractate of Order Tohorot in the Mishnah. Its 18 chapters deal primarily with two subjects: the impurity caused by physical contact with a corpse and the impurity caused by entering a tent or house containing a corpse (cf. Num. 19:11, 14-16). The Mishnah discusses the uncleanness caused by blood, hair, teeth, and nails, the contamination of the house itself and the objects inside it, the spreading of uncleanness, the case of a stillborn child, and the uncleanness contracted by walking over an unmarked grave. The purification from this uncleanness was carried out by immersion in a ritual bath (Mikveh) and sprinkling with the "living waters" mixed with the ashes of the Red Heifer. The subject matter is amplified in the Tosefta.
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Oholot (אוהלות, literally "Tents") is the second tractate of the Order of Tohorot in the Mishnah. It consists of eighteen chapters, which discuss the ritual impurity of corpses, and the peculiar quality they have to make all objects in the same tent-like structure impure as well. According to a Jewish legend, this is one of the most important tractates in the Talmud: King David is said to have asked that reading the Book of Psalms be considered the equivalent of studying the tractate of Oholot. Nevertheless, there is no Gemara for Oholot in either the Babylonian or Jerusalem Talmud.
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