ʾOholoth (אׇהֳלוֹת ‎, literally "Tents") is the second tractate of the Order of Tohorot in the Mishnah. It consists of eighteen chapters, [1] which discuss the ritual impurity of corpses, and the peculiar quality they have to make all objects in the same tent-like structure impure as well.

OHOLOT (Heb. אָהֳלוֹת; "tents"), the second tractate in the Mishnah order of *Tohorot. It deals with the ritual impurity conveyed by a corpse (or parts of it) either through physical contact, or through being under a common roof. There are 18 chapters both in the Mishnah and the Tosefta.

Read the text of Mishnah Oholot online with commentaries and connections. Ohalot ("tents") belongs to the sixth order, tahorot ("Purities"). This tractate discusses corpse impurity that contracts to a tent that stands over a corpse or vice versa and the purity status of other people present under the same tent.

רַבִּי יְהוּדָה מְטַהֵר: If there is uncleanness in a wall, in a space of one cubic handbreadth, all upper stories above it, even if there are ten of them, are unclean. If there was a single upper story [built] over two houses, that one becomes unclean but all upper stories above it remain clean.

The word "Ohalot" means "tents" and it refers to the halakhah found in Numbers 19 (quoted below) according to which a person or vessel found in a tent with a...

THERE ARE TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT MEMBERS IN A HUMAN BODY: THIRTY IN THE FOOT, [THAT IS] SIX TO EVERY TOE,31 TEN IN THE ANKLE, TWO IN THE SHIN, FIVE IN THE KNEE, ONE IN THE THIGH, THREE IN THE HIP,32 ELEVEN RIBS, THIRTY IN THE HAND, [THAT IS] SIX TO EVERY FINGER, TWO IN THE FORE-ARM, TWO IN THE ELBOW, ONE IN THE UPPER ARM AND FOUR IN THE SHO...

Oholot: (אוהלות "Tents"); deals with the uncleanness from a corpse and its peculiar property of defiling people or objects either by the latter "tenting" over the corpse, or by the corpse "tenting" over them, or by the presence of both corpse and person or object under the same roof or tent.

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Oholot (אוהלות, literally "Tents") is the second tractate of the Order of Tohorot in the Mishnah. It consists of eighteen chapters, which discuss the ritual impurity of corpses, and the peculiar quality they have to make all objects in the same tent-like structure impure as well.

OHOLOTOHOLOT (Heb. אָהֳלוֹת; "tents"), the second tractate in the Mishnah order of *Tohorot. It deals with the ritual impurity conveyed by a corpse (or parts of it) either through physical contact, or through being under a common roof. There are 18 chapters both in …