유대교 정결법이 상상하는 공간 = Space that the Jewish Purity Law Imagines

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Torah, the Jewish traditional literature, stipulates that impurity is passed on from a source of impurity, such as a human corps, to another person or objects that are in the same tent. Rabbinic Judaism inherits this stipulation and interprets that impurity is transferred if there is a space of at least 1 tepah in length, width, and height. Thus, if there is another space next to it that conforms to the minimum size, the impurity moves sideways in horizontal direction. But if there is no such space, the impurity is blocked and cannot move sideways, so it moves vertically, upwards to the sky or downwards to the deepest place.
Such an interpretation is closely connected to the concepts of private and public spaces in Jewish Sabbath regulations and civil law. On the Sabbath day, one should stay in a private space that has a fence and it is forbidden to get out of it. On normal days, one can go out to public space without any horizontal limits and can work for one’s living.
Thus the Purity Law of the Torah was systematically reinterpreted by Rabbis, and the concept of ‘tent’ was abstracted into that of ‘space,’ and thus correlated to and applied to the notions of private and public space. Then they applied this new conception to the traditional Purity Law and produced additional rules. It shows a dynamic process whereby a religious legal tradition corresponds with secular traditions and produces a new way of life.

참고문헌 (Reference)

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