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The Mikvah is the ritual cleansing of a woman after her period, the reason being that blood is considered unpure and she has just had a period of blood! This article clears up a number of misconceptions about the Mikvah
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A mikvah, or ritual bath, is found in most Orthodox Jewish communities, even small one, and in most large Jewish communities, even non-Orthodox ones. Dunking in a mikvah is a purification ritual. Observant Jewish women dunk after their periods. Some Jewish men dunk before the Sabbath or festivals. Converts dunk to mark the completion of their conversion. Silverware and metal cookpots are dunked as part of the ritual to make them kosher. In a pinch, just about any natural body of water open to the sky or spring-fed can be used as a mikvah, so long as it is large enough to dunk in.
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Do Orthodox Jews use the mikvah daily?
No, no one goes to mikvah on a daily basis.
What is the Jewish bath called?
The mikvah
What are the release dates for In Over Our Heads - 2010 Mikvah?
In Over Our Heads - 2010 Mikvah was released on: USA: 29 June 2010
Do you have to make appointments to visit the mikvah?
Yes.
What is the Jewish religious bath called?
a mikvah
What to expect when going to a mikvah?
The mikvah attendant will make sure you're 100% purely clean and assist you in immersing yourself into the water of the immersion pool.
Is the mikvah a swimming pool?
No, it's an immersion pool.
What kind of kosher water does a mikvah have?
All water is kosher, there's no such thing as 'special kosher water'. A mikvah is simply required to have fresh running water from a natural resource.
Do babies have to visit the mikvah to convert to Judaism if the mother isn't Jewish?
Yes, if the parents of the child decide to raise him or her as a Jew, they baby is taken to mikvah as part of the conversion process.
Was baptism derived from a Hebrew rite of atonement?
No, the only Jewish ritual that baptism could be linked to is going to the mikvah because a mikvah is a bath. The meaning behind the two are completely unrelated though.
What is the ritual called Tevilah that Jews do?
Tevilah is the act of immersion in a mikvah (ritual bath).
Is entering the mikvah an equivalent to baptism?
No, the concepts behind baptism are completely alien to Judaism.
