tahara

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Pronunciations

tahara (tah-HAH-rah) listen
tahara (tah-hah-RAH) listen
tahora (tah-HO-rah) listen

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Definitions

  • n. The ritual cleansing of a corpse.

Example Sentences

  • "The cleansing is performed by the funeral director and staff, or the ritual of tahara may be carried out by the chevra kadisha" (source)

  • "They've contacted the hospital about performing tahara there." (Glinert)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew

Etymology

  • טהרה, lit. 'purity'

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

      Alternative Spellings

      taharah, tahora, tohora, tohore, tohora, tohorah

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