Mikvah
Mikvah (or mikveh) (in Hebrew : ; plural: mikva'ot) is a ritual bath used for ablution necessary rites of purity in Judaism. This is one central place of Jewish community life, with the synagogue and Jewish school ( yeshiva ).
The main use today is the mikvah ritual purification of women after periods of menstruation or childbirth. The whole-body immersion in water of the mikvah is also part of the conversion process to Judaism. Some traditions also want the Jewish woman goes to the mikvah the day before his wedding.
Some men have the pious habit of dipping in the mikvah after the seed is out of their sexual organs (the law has other details), whether in a sexual relationship or after any other case. This habit is not required by halacha to everyday life, but only in certain cases.
Some men (especially in the Hassidic ) regularly attend mikveh on the eve of celebrations of the Jewish calendar as the Sabbath , especially on the eve of Yom Kippur, and some go there every morning before morning prayers. Also, the bodies of dead Jews are dipped in a mikvah at the Tahara , before burial.
The rules governing mikva'ot are complex and are defined in the Treaty namesake of Mishnah. The water (or at least the first amount paid in the tank) must not have been paid, so the rain water is generally the source most used to initialize a mikvah.
Such is the origin of the baptism of the Christians (from baptizein literally "dive" in Greek, "immersion" has the same meaning in the strict sense that the Hebrew word).
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(In) "The Mikvah" - by Rivkah Slonim
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