
Mikveh - Wikipedia
A mikveh or mikvah (Hebrew: מִקְוֶה / מקווה, Modern: mīqve, Tiberian: mīqwe, pl. mikva'ot, mikvot, or (Ashkenazic) mikves, [1][2] lit., "a collection") is a bath used for ritual immersion in Judaism …
What Is A Mikveh? | My Jewish Learning
Pronounced: MICK-vuh, or mick-VAH, Alternate Spelling: mikvah, Origin: Hebrew, Jewish ritual bath. (pronounced MICK-vuh, also spelled mikvah), is a Jewish ritual bath. Almost every …
Mikva'ot - Wikipedia
"Pools of Water"; in Talmudic Hebrew: Miqwaʾoth) is a section of the Mishna discussing the laws pertaining to the building and maintenance of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. Like most of …
Sacred Waters - hebrewnations.com
Mikvaoth are ritual bathing pools using water that is naturally gathered. That means you could not take water from a local stream or well and pour it into a tub in a private room of the house. It …
Mishnah Mikvaot - Sefaria
Mikavot (Pools) belongs to the sixth order, Tahorot (Purities) and discusses the laws of the mikveh (pool) used for cleansing the body from impurities. It has four chapters. Read the text …
Mikva'ot - Jewish Virtual Library
MIKVA'OT (Heb. מִקְוָאוֹת; "Ritual Baths"), the sixth tractate in the order of Tohorot in the Mishnah and the Tosefta. The tractate consists of ten chapters and deals wholly with the details of the …
English Explanation of Mishnah Mikvaot, Introduction - Sefaria
Today most people are familiar with the "mikveh" usually translated as a "ritual bath." In modern halakhah it is mostly used for conversion and by women...
Mikvaot - The Laws of Mikveot - Chabad.org
Featuring a modern English translation and a commentary that presents a digest of the centuries of Torah scholarship which have been devoted to the study of the Mishneh Torah by …
Mikvaot - Chapter 1 - Chabad.org
Introduction to Hilchos Mikvaot. Included in this text is one positive commandment: that all impure individuals should immerse themselves in a mikveh and then regain purity. This mitzvah is …
The Mikvah - Chabad.org
A mikvah (מִקְוֶה, also spelled mikveh) is a pool of water, in which Jewish people immerse to affect purity. It is most commonly used by women, as part of the niddah cycle, before she is reunited …