Mikvah judaism

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A recent post on Junior Ganymede mentions the ritual bath called a mikveh where Jews practiced ritual immersions in pools of water. The parallels to Christian baptism (which means to dip or immerse) are many. In both rituals the purpose of the immersion is a symbolic cleansing or refreshing. Ancient

Bar Mitzvah. Red color. by Dmitry Sytnikov

Bar Mitzvah. Red color. By Dmitry Sytnikov

We got a flash drive in the mail yesterday. It was a flash drive filled with over 1,000 image files. And they were awesome. We're still waiting on photos from our second shooter, and I still need to sort through all of them, but I figured we could get started on the non-wedding recaps in the meantime! The Lioness wedding weekend kicked off with something a little out of character for me: I did something religious. I choose to immerse myself in a mikvah. A mikvah (also spelled mikveh) is…

These 6 Chinese Jewish descendents from Kaifeng, China are returning to Judaism. They are on their way to the mikvah.

A new year is approaching, and winter is settling in. As we prepare to jump into 2012, and think about what sort of resolutions we will be making, I can’t help but reflect on how the Jewish year be…

Magdala (the home of Mary Magdalene) There is a beautiful church , right on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, dedicated to the women from Galilee. This Mikvah is a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism to achieve ritual purity. Most forms of ritual impurity can be purified through immersion in any natural collection of water. However, some impurities, such as a zav, require "living water", such as springs or groundwater wells.