Keri is a Hebrew term which literally means either "frivolity" or "contrariness" and has come to mean "seminal emission." The term is generally used in Jewish law to refer specifically to the regulations and rituals concerning the emission of semen, whether by nocturnal emission, or by sexual activity. By extension, a man is said to be a ba'al keri, meaning "one who has had a seminal emission" after he has emitted semen without yet completing the associated ritual requirements. Biblical regulations The biblical regulations of the Priestly Code specify that a man who had experienced an emission of semen would become ritually impure, until the evening came and the man had washed himself in water; any clothes or bits of skin which the semen came into contact with would also become ritually impure, until they had been washed in water and the evening had come. The code adds that if the emission of semen occurred during s

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