Yet impurity was inevitable. The ordinary processes of life and death generated impurity as a matter of course. Accidents happened, leading to unintentional profanation of the holy place. Stubborn individuals continued in forbidden practices. In order to protect Israel’s community relationship with Yahweh, the priests had to battle impurity on two fronts. On the one hand, they taught the torah of clean and unclean, what to do and what and whom to avoid. On the other hand, priests performed cleansing