Keri is a Hebrew
word which factually means "happenstance", "frivolity" or
"contrariness" and has come to mean "seminal emission". The
term is usually employed in Jewish law to pass on particularly to the
regulations and rituals regarding the release of semen, whether by nocturnal
emission, or by sexual activity. By extension, a man is said to be a ba'al keri
after he has discharged without yet carrying out the associated ritual
cleansing necessities.
The biblical
regulations of the Priestly Code specify that a man who had experienced a release
of semen would become ceremonially polluted, until the evening came and the man
had washed himself in water; any clothes or bits of skin which the semen
encountered would also become ceremonially impure, until they had been washed
in water and the evening had come.
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