別べっ火か

noun

separate fire for ritual purity; cooking on a separate fire to avoid impurity

A Shinto practice of using a separate fire for cooking when ritual purity is required, such as during religious ceremonies or to avoid contamination from death or menstruation. The term is technical and primarily encountered in discussions of traditional customs.

• 神しん事じの前まえには別べっ火かで料りょう理りを作つくる。

  Before a Shinto ritual, meals are prepared using a separate fire.

• 昔むかしは、喪も中ちゅうや生せい理り中ちゅうの女じょ性せいは別べっ火かで食しょく事じを用よう意いした。

  In the past, women in mourning or menstruating prepared food using a separate fire.