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Observance of niddah laws even today requires internal examinations for hefsek tahara to mark the end of menstruation and requires internal examinations on the seven clean days.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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If I had to explain other concepts, such as tumah, tahara, taharas mishpoha, to a non-Jewish listener, you can bet it would take considerable forethought, and I have more than 40 years over this teenager.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Latest in the Rifqa Bary Case 2009
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Being conceived out of tahara leads to contempt for the Rabbinic Authority, huh?
Tainted Love Child: The Baal Teshuvah’s Status as a Ben Niddah in the Haredi World | Jewschool 2007
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Hooping on Hay Bales tahara said: On November 11, 2007
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David Zinner, front, executive director of Kavod v'Nichum, offers a training session on tahara to about 25 people from Morristown Jewish Center-Beit Yisrael, including, from left, Ira Hammer, Barbara Kavadias, and Phil Frost.
New Jersey Jewish News webmaster@njjewishnews.com 2010
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The earliest references to burial societies can be found in talmudic literature, the first reference to tahara in the commentaries of Rashi.
New Jersey Jewish News webmaster@njjewishnews.com 2010
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On Feb. 14, the Morristown congregation became the latest in the area to receive formal training in tahara led by David Zinner, executive director of Kavod v'Nichum, an umbrella group for kadisha societies founded in 2000.
New Jersey Jewish News webmaster@njjewishnews.com 2010
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When Bruce Tillinger was dying of cancer, he and his wife, Barbara Kavadias, decided that they wanted their own community to perform the Jewish rituals of tahara and shmira - washing his body and then guarding it until the funeral.
New Jersey Jewish News webmaster@njjewishnews.com 2010
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David Zinner, front, executive director of Kavod v'Nichum, offers a training session on tahara to about 25 people from Morristown Jewish Center-Beit Yisrael, including, from left, Ira Hammer, Barbara Kavadias, and Phil Frost.
New Jersey Jewish News webmaster@njjewishnews.com 2010
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Women at Morristown Jewish Center-Beit Yisrael learn from Laurie Dinerstein-Kurs, a member of a hevra kadisha in Mercer County, how to do tahara and dress the body following the ritual purification.
New Jersey Jewish News webmaster@njjewishnews.com 2010
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