Ba'al Keri, A person who had a night pollution

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Ba'al Keri, A person who had a night pollution

Ba'al Keri, A person who had a night pollution

A person from whom semen was emitted during sleep, and as a result, he is required to immerse himself in a ritual bath (mikveh).

("He would stand in prayer and remember that he was a Ba'al Keri; he would not stop but shorten (the prayer) and go down to immerse" - Berakhot 3:5. Similarly: "Proclus son of Plosfus asked Rabban Gamliel in Akko who was bathing in the bathhouse of Aphrodite, 'It is written in your Torah that nothing from the banned item clings to your hand. Why then do you bathe in the bathhouse of Aphrodite?' He said to him... 'If they would give you much money, would you enter idolatrous service naked and Ba'al Keri and urinate before her? And she stands at the entrance of the temple and all the people urinate before her. It is said only of their gods that one who serves them is forbidden because of God, and one who does not serve them is permitted because of God.'" - Avodah Zarah 3:4)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בַּעַל קֶרִי

Definition (Hebrew)

אָדָם שֶׁנִּפְלַט לוֹ זֶרַע בְּמַהֲלַךְ הַשֵּׁנָה שֶׁבְּעִקְבוֹת כָּךְ צָרִיךְ לִטְבֹּל בַּמִּקְוֶה.

("הָיָה עוֹמֵד בִּתְפִלָּה וְנִזְכַּר שֶׁהוּא בַּעַל קֶרִי לֹא יַפְסִיק אֶלָּא יְקַצֵּר"- בְּרָכוֹת ג ה, וְכֵן: "שָׁאַל פְּרוֹקְלוּס בֶּן פְּלוֹסְפוּס אֶת רַבָּן גַּמְלִיאֵל בְּעַכּוֹ שֶׁהָיָה רוֹחֵץ בַּמֶּרְחָץ שֶׁל אַפְרוֹדִיטִי, אָמַר לוֹ: כָּתוּב בְּתוֹרַתְכֶם 'וְלֹא יִדְבַּק בְּיָדְךָ מְאוּמָה מִן הַחֵרֶם'. מִפְּנֵי מָה אַתָּה רוֹחֵץ בַּמֶּרְחָץ שֶׁל אַפְרוֹדִיטִי? אָמַר לוֹ... אִם נוֹתְנִין לְךָ מָמוֹן הַרְבֵּה אִי אַתָּה נִכְנָס לַעֲבוֹדָה זָרָה שֶׁלְּךָ עָרֹם וּבַעַל קֶרִי וּמַשְׁתִּין בְּפָנֶיהָ, וְזוֹ- עוֹמֶדֶת עַל פִּי הַבִּיב וְכָל הָעָם מַשְׁתִּינִין לְפָנֶיהָ"- עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה ג ד)

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