Tevilat Kelim

Ritual purity in Judaism
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Tumah and taharah Mikveh
Purification methods Netilat yadayim Mikveh Red heifer Hefsek taharah Hagalah Tevilat Kelim
Hierarchy Av HaTumah
Miscellaneous Niddah Tzaraath Keri Zav Zavah Midras Tumath eretz Ha'Amim Prohibition of Kohen defilement by the dead

Tevilat Kelim, in Judaism, is the immersion of certain types of culinary utensils in a mikveh, on the occasion of their being acquired from a non-Jew. It is based upon Numbers 31:22-23 - "Howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of sprinkling; and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make to go through the water."

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