Talk:Ritual purification

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This page was a candidate for Stubsensor cleanup project. I think the page as a whole doesn't count as a stub, but individual sections certainly do, so I've decided to leave the stub tag on for now. --RoySmith 01:48, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

WTF? Does a encyclopedia start in this way?!

"There are strong similarities between the cleansing actions engaged in by obsessive compulsive disorder sufferers and those of religious purification rites."

Is that NPOV? --Striver 03:09, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merger

I would oppose merging this article with the one on Ablution. Ablution referrs specifically to washing with water; whereas ritual purification referrs to maintaining a state of ritual cleanness--which may be accomplished as much by abstainig from certain behaviors as by performing certain acts (which may or may not involve the use of water). MishaPan 18:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unsourced claims

Just a reminder that comparative theories about the nature or origin of ritual purification rituals require sources. Best, --Shirahadasha 22:56, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Content from 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia

I would encourage not using the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia as a source on contemporary Judaism. An example of how unreliable it can be is an edit made to the Ritual purification article, which included the claim, based on the Jewish Encyclopedia, that full body immersion by men has largely gone out of practice in contemporary Judaism. Things have changed a lot since 1906. Chabad-Lubavitch, among other Hassidic groups, practices daily full ritual immersion for men. They were a tiny obscure group in 1906 and could reasonably be ignored when the Jewish Encyclopedia was written, but their explosive growth has made their views and practices highly influential today. --Shirahadasha 22:31, 4 June 2007 (UTC)