Doctor: “How dare you say I am unclean! I just got back from performing a human dissection and now am going to deliver a baby with out washing my hands. I am a man of science and I know there is nothing wrong with it!”
5000 years ago, some random Jewish priest: “If you do not wash your hands after pooping, we will forever banish you to the wilderness!”
FUN FACT: Poland was spared the worst of the Black Plague. This may have been in part due to the Polish king at the time inviting expelled Jewish populations, which have an emphasis on ritual cleanliness (and prompt burial), who may have then provided a demographic barrier in urban centers to the spread of the plague.
Doctor: “How dare you say I am unclean! I just got back from performing a human dissection and now am going to deliver a baby with out washing my hands. I am a man of science and I know there is nothing wrong with it!”
5000 years ago, some random Jewish priest: “If you do not wash your hands after pooping, we will forever banish you to the wilderness!”
FUN FACT: Poland was spared the worst of the Black Plague. This may have been in part due to the Polish king at the time inviting expelled Jewish populations, which have an emphasis on ritual cleanliness (and prompt burial), who may have then provided a demographic barrier in urban centers to the spread of the plague.