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    <dateIssued>c2009</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>The place -- The balaniyot -- A dose of impurity -- Blood and banishment -- Purity and sexuality -- Female rituals, sisterhood, and female authority -- Between a woman and God -- Between man and wife.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Varda Polak-Sahm ; translated from the Hebrew by Anne Hartstein Pace.</note>
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  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>Religious life</topic>
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    <topic>Purity, Ritual</topic>
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