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Zavim is the ninth tractate in the Mishnah and Tosefta of the sixth Talmudic order Tohorot. It deals with the laws of the zav and zavah, based on Leviticus 15.
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The treatise consists of five chapters, divided respectively into 6, 4, 3, 7, and 12 paragraphs, or mishnayot. It gives in detail all particulars of uncleanness and purification, specifies the degrees of the discharges which render an individual subject to the laws stated above, and mentions what persons are subject to those laws and in what way they cause vessels or other people to become unclean. The contents of the respective chapters may be summarized as follows:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "ZABIM". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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