Tehorot

Tehorot

Ṭoharoth (Hebrew: טהרות literally "Purities") is the sixth order of the Mishnah (also the Tosefta and Talmud). This order deals with the clean/unclean distinction and family purity. This is the longest of the orders in the Mishnah. There are 12 tractates:

1. Keilim: ("Vessels"); deals with a large array of various utensils and how they fare in terms of purity. 30 chapters, the longest in the Mishnah.
2. Oholot: ("Tents"); deals with the uncleanness from a corpse and its peculiar property of "overshadowing" objects in the same tent-like structure as it.
3. Nega'im: ("Plagues"); deals with the laws of the tzaraath.
4. Parah: ("Cow"); deals largely with the laws of the Red Heifer. (Para Adumah)
5. Tohorot: ("Purities"); deals with miscellaneous laws of purity, especially the actual mechanics of contracting impurity and the laws of the impurity of food.
6. Mikva'ot: ("Ritual Baths"); deals with the laws of the Mikvah.
7. Niddah: ("Separation"); deals with the Niddah, a woman either during her menstrual cycle or shortly after having given birth.
8. Makhshirin: ("Preliminary acts of preparation"), the liquids that make food susceptible to tumah (ritual impurity)
9. Zavim: ("Seminal Emissions"); deals with the laws of a person who has ejaculated or has gonorrhea
10. Tevul Yom: ("Bathing (of the) day") deals with a special kind of impurity where the person immerses in a Mikvah but is still unclean for the rest of the day.
11. Yadayim: ("Hands"); deals with a Rabbinic impurity related to the hands.
12. Uktzim: ("Stalks"); deals with the impurity of the stalks of fruit.