Household Vessels - purity and impurity

Household Vessels - purity and impurity. . In addition to laws governing bodily purity, Jewish law also mandates how to purify food utensils that were purchased from a gentile or had been rendered impure. , Many vessels from the Second Temple period were uncovered in excavations in the Ophel, in the City of David and in the Jewish Quarter. The most prominent are carved stone vessels, which, according to Jewish law (Halakha), were not susceptible to ritual impurity. This is in contrast to pottery, glass, wood and metal vessels, which once impure, they were either disqualified from use (pottery) or could be reused only after immersion in a Mikveh (glass, wood and metal). As with bodily purification, the impure vessel had to be completely immersed, with no interposition between it and the water., (Hebrew text not transcribed)