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Religion Slog Bible Study: Leviticus 15:19-20
Posted by Goldy on Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:00 AM
Leviticus 15:19-20
When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening. Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.
Discuss.
3
The rest of Leviticus 15 makes clear that god suffers from OCD and needs to take an SSRI. I'll bet he goes around madly flipping light switches and counting stuff too.
5
Don't make me have to crack open the Silly Book. My question:
Do the surrounding passages link the period to the woman's state of (non)pregnancy? ...a sadness to some - a joy to others?
Do the surrounding passages link the period to the woman's state of (non)pregnancy? ...a sadness to some - a joy to others?
9
What's she doing lying or sitting in the first place? My breakfast isn't going to cook itself, god damn it. And get over here, I need you to pare my corns.
10
What do the Talmudic scholars say about my 8-day-long periods? Do I get a free pass that last day or something?
11
Why does the mere fact of the sun setting have any impact on one's cleanliness vis-a-vis touching a menstruating woman? Is it some sort of restart of the "cooties clock"?
14
Periods mean bleeding everywhere. That's why we invented wonderful things like pads and tampons. So the menfolk don't need to pull out their fainting couches once a month.
16
Goldy, for Father's Day, I think you should have done Abraham obeying the Voices in his head that tell him to prepare to ritually sacrifice Isaac. Greater love hath no father....
18
Men are such horn dogs that if women were not declared unclean for some time period each month the horny bastards would never leave them alone. This is all done for a woman's own good. Now get up and make Fnarf his breakfast.
19
Like so many things in the Bible, I suppose it made sense at the time. But just as we don't generally worry about things like rotary telephones and Telex machines anymore, we surely shouldn't be worrying about what a bunch of ancient savages without GPS thought about the monthly visit from Aunt Flo.
21
well now I finally understand why it's called a period. I didn't realize it was a biblical reference.
22
I learned that some of the indians here in Canada do NOT consider menses unclean. Women are considered having great power/energy during that time.
23
Just be glad you're not confined to a special hut during this time, like some cultures proscribed. That must have been boring as hell when folks didn't have smart phones.
24
This confirms it. There has always been a War on Women since the days of Antiquity. The Repubs and the Christian Taliban are just the latest to continue it.
26
If everyone in America followed this rule, we'd probably drop our GDP by two trillion dollars or so from the lost productivity of having women work only three weeks each month.
27
@6 it's only three tablespoons. You can confirm this yourself: measure out three tablespoons of red juice and pour it on some feminine hygiene products till they are soaked.
28
Word up, bitchez!
What is it with you, Goldstein, always on and on about this stadium and B-ball team you claim we need?
Seattle has many fine sports teams.
One of those was named in honor of the ancient cartographer, Marinus: the Seattle Mariners.
Another one of those fine sports teams was named after an ancient tribe of beautiful Amazon women: the Rat City Rollergirls.
Money could be put to excellent use in improvements in our fine city, but no need for further stadia to deplete the local tax base!
Fuck off, Goldstein!
http://ratcityrollergirls.com/wp-content…
What is it with you, Goldstein, always on and on about this stadium and B-ball team you claim we need?
Seattle has many fine sports teams.
One of those was named in honor of the ancient cartographer, Marinus: the Seattle Mariners.
Another one of those fine sports teams was named after an ancient tribe of beautiful Amazon women: the Rat City Rollergirls.
Money could be put to excellent use in improvements in our fine city, but no need for further stadia to deplete the local tax base!
Fuck off, Goldstein!
http://ratcityrollergirls.com/wp-content…
30
They didn't have tampons back in the day. And to be fair, a dude who has a wet dream is similarly unclean for a while.
@29: The acid must have kicked in.
@29: The acid must have kicked in.
31
@10 The benefits of a Jewish education - you are not clean from after your period until you have gone to the mikvah to have a ritual bath (which is pretty much a bath in a place where only women are allowed). You are not allowed to go to the mikvah until you have failed to bleed for an entire day to be sure your period is over. So, you're just unclean for longer, sorry.
@27 Please don't be so annoyingly ignorant. Periods are highly variable and for many women it is much more blood than that. I have confirmed it by using a diva cup, and over the course of a single period I can fill the cup to overflowing more than once. That's part of why there are medical treatments for heavy periods or unusually long periods, because for many women a period can be very draining (pun only partly intended).
@27 Please don't be so annoyingly ignorant. Periods are highly variable and for many women it is much more blood than that. I have confirmed it by using a diva cup, and over the course of a single period I can fill the cup to overflowing more than once. That's part of why there are medical treatments for heavy periods or unusually long periods, because for many women a period can be very draining (pun only partly intended).
33
I guess I understand the sitting/laying on something that makes it "unclean" (didn't they have soap yet?), but just touching a lady makes YOU unclean? It's not like it oozes out of all our pores. I feel like that's just opening up a whole line of immature behavior, like siblings in a back seat on a road trip: "Is this bugging you? I'm not touching youuuu! (wagging finger close to their face)"
34
@33: Pretty quickly they developed a special spot for women to go for periods, births, miscarriages etc., so the space was kinda always ritually unclean, and men just never entered.
36
God can pull a rib and make a women, but he can't snag a leaf and make a decent maxi-pad?
Doesn't seem right.
Doesn't seem right.
37
I have no problem with this passage as long as good Christian women are willing to submit to their husbands in all things.
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