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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
A condition understood under religious purity rules to restrict participation in religious life or contact with others; it does not necessarily mean that a person has done something morally wrong.
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Paper 2
Revise: Jesus’ Attitudes to Disregarded PeopleRitual impurity concerned religious purity rules, not necessarily wrongdoing. A person could be considered impure because of an illness rather than a choice they had made. This distinction matters: illness did not make someone morally bad.
Do not confuse ritual impurity with moral wrongdoing, or describe all Jewish people as sharing the same attitudes.
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