Food and Purity

Core tenets that state a rule of ritual purity or a dietary restriction and ground it as a matter of core belief rather than everyday custom. This includes tenets holding that a food is forbidden or required by divine command, that a state of ritual purity or impurity affects a person's standing before the divine, and doctrines that tie bodily purity to spiritual fitness for worship or community life. A practical instruction on how to prepare or avoid a food, without the underlying belief about why it matters, belongs instead to the practices side of the atlas rather than to a core tenet.