Mikveh

Mikveh (sometimes spelled as mikvah, or either way without the ending -"h") (Hebrew: מִקְוֶה / מקווה, Modern Mikve Tiberian Miqwā; plural: mikva'ot or mikvesHebrew: מִקְוֶוֹת / מִקְוָאות) is a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism. The word "mikveh", as used in the Hebrew Bible, literally means a "collection" – generally, a collection of water.

Several biblical regulations specify that full immersion in water is required to regain ritual purity after ritually impure incidents have occurred. Most forms of impurity can be nullified through immersion in any natural collection of water. Some, such as a Zav, however require "living water," such as springs or groundwater wells. Living water has the further advantage of being able to purify even while flowing as opposed to rainwater which must be stationary in order to purify. The mikveh is designed to simplify this requirement, by providing a bathing facility that remains in ritual contact with a natural source of water.

Its main uses nowadays are:

Torture Is Never Forgotten, Neither Should It Be

Edit WorldNews.com 13 Apr 2016

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling“Anyone who has been tortured remains tortured” wrote Holocaust survivor Primo Levi in “The Drowned and The Saved.” What‘s more, he knew all too well that in the shadowy, bureaucratic, and dehumanizing places like Auschwitz, “Anyone who has suffered torture never again will be able to be at ease in the world,” and “the abomination of the annihilation is never extinguished.”1U.S ... 24. ....

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Lincoln Lewis' girlfriend Chloe Ciesla goes topless as she poses for a holiday snap by ...

Edit The Daily Mail 13 Apr 2016

Lincoln Lewis' girlfriend Chloe Ciesla shared a topless image of herself on social media on Tuesday as she posed for a holiday snap while standing along the beach side ... ....

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Sailors man the rail as USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) returns to Naval Station Norfolk following a seven-month deployment.

USS Donald Cook reports ‘simulated attack’ by Russian jets

Edit Press TV 13 Apr 2016

Two Russian fighter jets have made “simulated attack” passes near a US navy guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea, says a US official. The incident took place on April 11, when USS Donald Cook was confronted by two Sukhoi SU-24 warplanes in international waters off Russia, a senior military official told CBS News on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity ... The event ended without incident ... ....

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FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

FBI Employed Hackers To Break Into San Bernardino Cell Phone, Report Says

Edit WorldNews.com 13 Apr 2016

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) engaged the help of professional hackers to find at least one software flaw to break into an iPhone used by one of the terrorists responsible for the Dec. 2 San Bernardino terrorist attacks, the Washington Post reported. The hackers were paid a one-time flat fee for their help, the Post said, quoting people familiar with the case....

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File - Water tank at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014.

Is it safe to dump Fukushima waste into the sea?

Edit The Guardian 13 Apr 2016

Japan has called for hundreds of thousands tonnes of irradiated water from the nuclear plant to be released into the Pacific Ocean. Karl Mathiesen looks at the potential impacts. @karlmathiesen. email. More than 1,000 tanks brimming with irradiated water stand inland from the Fukushima nuclear plant. Each day 300 tonnes of water are pumped through Fukushima’s ruined reactors to keep them cool ... The substance can be harmful if ingested ... ....

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What If the Religion You Choose Doesn't Want You?

Edit The Atlantic 12 Apr 2016

That’s the perception this 19-year-old journalism student is struggling with.. I converted to Judaism through the Conservative Movement at the end of my freshman year of college. I was first drawn to Judaism as a 13-year-old girl at Sports Broadcasting Camp. About 60 percent of the campers were Jewish ... 1 ... 2 ... A ceremony in the Rabbinical court which includes an immersion in a Mikveh (women and men) and performing a circumcision (men)....

Finding the Divine (Parshat Pekudei, Exodus 38:21 - 40:38)

Edit Huffington Post 09 Mar 2016

This month, the Torah has led us on a comprehensive tour of the folk art museum of ancient Israelite desert wandering, a full accounting of the physical culture of our portable sacred space in the wilderness ... At a mikveh, a facility for ritual immersion, we dare to claim that the waters of tehom, the original Deep, are gathered in a given nondescript building, in the pool of the mikveh, which becomes a Sea ... Rabbi Meir taught ... ....

Bethel Burying Ground, a National Historic Site, faces neglect, damage

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 01 Feb 2016

The existence of the graveyard had been forgotten until rediscovered by a historian a few years ago and designated a city landmark in 2013. Bethel Burying Ground now joins a handful of city graveyards - Christ Church Burial Ground, Old Swedes' Church Cemetery, Mikveh Israel Cemetery, the Woodlands - on the national register ... "A construction date has not yet been set for the playground renovations ... You move the bathroom ... But the Rev ... ....

Did Zooey Deschanel Convert For Her Husband? Is That a Bad Thing?

Edit Huffington Post 13 Nov 2015

Is converting to Judaism "for" someone so bad after all?. As an avid follower of the hit show, New Girl, I couldn't pass up an article about its star, Zooey Deschanel, converting to Judaism ... Someone discovers Judaism on their own, learns about it and seeks a community, studies toward conversion until they are immersed in Jewish life and ultimately take the plunge into the Mikveh (ritual bath necessary for conversion by Jewish law) ... ....

My dad Howard Stern put me off dating men

Edit New York Post 08 Nov 2015

A couple of blocks away from the Upper West Side home of radio’s king of raunch, Howard Stern, his Torah-scholar daughter sits in her ankle-length skirt and recites a blessing. Emily Stern, 32, couldn’t have a life more different from her famous father’s ... Getty Images ... Getty Images ... “I was alone ... Emily calls the works the “Wells of Miriam” because it reminds her of the “mikveh,” a ritual bath in Judaism that’s associated with renewal ... ....

How Orthodox Women Sell Sex

Edit The Daily Beast 25 Sep 2015

While there are references to fantasies about adultery, the sex is between married couples with plenty of references to trips to the mikveh, the Jewish ritual bath for purification which is mandated for religious women to cleanse themselves after menstruation ... It also, as Pollack likes to point out, doubles as a cleaning device when one prepares for the mikveh....

Jewish tradition misrepresented

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 24 Sep 2015

ISSUE . KAPAROT. Jewish tradition misrepresented ... The custom, observed by some, of slaughtering a chicken and donating it to a poor family before the Day of Atonement is not a requirement of Jewish law. When observed, Jewish law requires that the chicken be treated humanely, as in the case of all animals slaughtered for kosher food ... .Rabbi Albert Gabbai, Congregation Mikveh, Philadelphia, agabbai@aol.com ... ....

A Few Pope-ular Small Repositories to Consider This Weekend (Historical Society of Pennsylvania)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Sep 2015

Congregation Mikveh Israel. Congregation Mikveh Israel is the oldest formal Jewish congregation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the oldest continuous synagogues in the United States. Nicknamed "Synagogue of the American Revolution," Congregation Mikveh Israel traces its roots to 1740. Following the Sephardic tradition, Mikveh ......

MAYOR NUTTER WELCOMES PILGRIMS TO PHILADELPHIA DURING WORLD MEETING OF FAMILIES OPENING CEREMONY, PRESENTS GIFTS ...

Edit Public Technologies 23 Sep 2015

(Source. City of Philadelphia, PA). Philadelphia, September 22, 2015 - During the opening ceremonies for the World Meeting of Families - Philadelphia 2015, Mayor Michael A. Nutter delivered remarks welcoming to Philadelphia pilgrims from all over the world who will participate in the conference ... There is an energy on the streets ... Joseph's Church (the first Catholic Church in the city), Mikveh Israel synagogue and Mother Bethel A.M.E....

Caitlyn Jenner's Renaming Ceremony Shows Bold Expression Of Faith

Edit Huffington Post 14 Sep 2015

On July 23, Caitlyn Jenner gathered with some of her closest friends to give thanks for the journey that gave her a new name ... Allyson Dylan Robinson, a transgender pastor, led the service ... In the morning, God blessed Jacob with a new name -- Israel. ... Addressing Caitlyn, Robinson said. ... TransTorah, an alliance for transgender Jews, has created blessings for transitioning genders, chest binding, and pre-surgery mikvehs ... ....

'Mountain': Venice Review

Edit The Hollywood Reporter 12 Sep 2015

0. 0. 0. 0. 0. Email Print Comments. Courtesy of Venice Film Festival. The Bottom Line. Yaelle Kayam’s starkly original first feature about good and evil is a head-turner. Venue  . Venice Film Festival (Horizons) Cast ... Yaelle Kayam ... Not only is he too self-absorbed to talk to her, but after she’s purified herself with a ritual mikveh bath to resume sexual relations after her period, he rolls over in bed with a lame excuse....

Uzo Aduba Breaks Down Season 3's Epic Final Scene

Edit Seattle Post-Intelligence 31 Aug 2015

Survival in prison is all about the simple pleasures, according to Orange Is the New Black. Amid all the drama of Season 3, the one image that stands out as encapsulating what this show is all about is from the final scene, as several Litchfield inmates run with wild abandon out of the prison yard - not to escape, but just to enjoy a dip in the lake (or, in the case of Black Cindy, a Mikveh) ... ....

Destination Resource Guide For Media (Visit Philadelphia - The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Aug 2015

(Source. Visit Philadelphia - The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation). For a downloadable and printable PDF of this guide, click here. WELCOME TO PHILADELPHIA!. Dear Media Friend,. Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love for the World Meeting of Families! ... We also hope you will take some time to explore our beloved region on your own ... 6th Street, motherbethel.org Mikveh Israel - The oldest Jewish congregation in Philadelphia....