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:

Make A Wave

joe : They say the beat of a butterflies wings,
can set off a storm a world away
Demi : What if they're right and the smallest of things,
can power the strongest hurricane
joe : What if it all begins inside
Demi : We hold the key that turns the tide
CHORUS
Both : Just a pebble in the water
Demi : ooh
Demi : Can set the sea in motion
Demi : ooh
Both : A simple act of kindness
Demi: ohh
joe : Can stir the widest ocean
Both : If we show a little love
heaven knows what we could change
oh yeah
so throw a pebble in the water
Joe: Oh Yeah
Both : Mave a wave
Demi : Make a wave
joe : Make a wave, make a wave
VERSE 2
Demi : The single choice to take a stand
joe : And reach out your hand to someone in need
(help somebody)
demi : Don't fool yourself and say you can't
joe : You never know what can grow
from just one seed
demi : yeahhh
so come with me and seize the day
this world may never be the same
CHORUS
Both : Just a pebble in the water
Demi : Just a pebble in the water
Both : Can set the sea in motion
joe : Can set the sea in motion
Both : A simple act of kindness
demi: ohhh
both : Can stir the widest ocean
joe : Can stir the widest ocean
Both : If we show a little love
joe : If we show a little love
Both : Heaven knows what we could change
Demi : Heaven knows what we could change
Both: so throw a pebble in the water
joe : throw a pebble in the water
Both : Make a wave
Demi : Make a wave
joe : Make a wave
BRIDGE
Demi: Yea yea yea yea yeahhh
joe : Make a wave, make a wave
Demi: Make a wave Yeah
joe : Show a little love make a wave, seize the day yeahh
Demi: make a wave, heaven knows what we could change
joe : ohh
Demi: So let's show a little love, you never know what we can change
joe : So throw a pebble in the water
demi: mmmmmmmm
both : Make a wave, make a wave
joe: oohh wooah

photo: AP / Evan Vucci

President Barack Obama speaks during Rutgers University's 250th Anniversary commencement ceremony, on Sunday, May 15, 2016, in Piscataway, N.J.

Rebuking Trump, Obama tells graduates walls won't solve ills

Edit Boston Herald 15 May 2016

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — President Barack Obama on Sunday urged college graduates to shun those who want to confront a rapidly linked world by building walls around the United States or by embracing ignorance, as he delivered a sharp and barely concealed critique of Donald Trump ... "A wall won't stop that," Obama said, bringing to mind Trump's call for building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico ... on a path of decline ... ___....

photo: Government Press Office (Israel) לשכת העיתונות הממשלתית של ישראל

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and his Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Iran ‘preparing another Holocaust,’ says Israeli leader

Edit Toronto Sun 15 May 2016

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran Sunday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of six million Jews during the Second World War and said the Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one. Iran has long backed armed groups committed to Israel's destruction and its leaders have called for it to be wiped off the map....

photo: USMC / Bryan Nygaard

The People’s Republic of China Minister of National Defense Gen. Liang Guanglie asks Gunnery Sgt. Myron Tapio, the battalion gunner master for 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, a question about the M1A1 Abrams Battle Tank on display at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., May 9. During the visit, II MEF Marines showcased several Marine Corps vehicles and equipment sets to highlight the Corps’ emphasis on training and professional development and its capabilities and role in U.S. and global security. Liang and the rest of the Chinese delegation are in the midst of a tour of several military installations on the East and West Coasts at the invitation of U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. The purpose of these visits is to highlight the improvement of the U.S.’s capacity to cooperate in areas of mutual interest, such as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and addressing non-traditional and transnational security threats and counter-piracy.

Beijing blasts Pentagon report on Chinese military as damaging trust

Edit Dawn 15 May 2016

BEIJING. China condemned the United States (US) Defense Department's annual report on the Chinese military on Sunday, calling it deliberate distortion that has "severely damaged" mutual trust ... It is the US that has always been suspicious and flexing its military muscle by frequently sending military aircraft and warships to the region, Yang said ... DAWN_VIDEO - /1029551/DAWN-RM-1x1 ... ....

photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands celebrates after winning the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix at the Barcelona Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, just outside Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Verstappen becomes youngest ever F1 winner in Spain

Edit Deccan Herald 15 May 2016

Teenager Max Verstappen became the youngest ever Formula One winner today when he took full advantage of Mercedes' first lap crash to claim a drama-laden Spanish Grand Prix. In his maiden outing for Red Bull following his unexpected promotion from Toro Rosso, the 18-year-old Dutchman showed supreme composure under pressure as he resisted all attacks to claim a memorable victory in only his 24th F1 race ... More ... "It is stupid ... ....

photo: AP / Martin Meissner

Ukraine's Jamala celebrates with the trophy after winning the Eurovision Song Contest final with the song '1944' in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Ukraine's Jamala Wins 2016 Eurovision Song Contest

Edit Bloomberg 15 May 2016

Stockholm (AP) -- Ukrainian singer Jamala's melancholic tune about Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars was crowned the winner of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest early Sunday, an unusual choice for the kitschy pop fest ... Australia's Dami Im was second with 511 points, followed by Russia's Sergey Lazarev in third with 491 ... Last year's contest reached nearly 200 million viewers globally ... Russia was first ... ....

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What's In The Old City Neighborhood? (Visit Philadelphia - The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 09 May 2016

(Source. Visit Philadelphia - The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation) ... People love the neighborhood for its fashionable boutiques, great restaurants, eclectic galleries, boundary-pushing theaters and vibrant nightlife ... 26 N ... 7 N ... 24 S ... 41 ... 5th & Arch Streets, (215) 922-1695, christchurchphila.org Mikveh Israel Synagogue - This full-service synagogue dates back to 1740 and still offers traditional weekly and holiday services....

Rabbi building 'first West Africa mikveh' in Nigeria

Edit Topix 07 May 2016

An Israeli firm and a Chabad rabbi working in Nigeria are preparing to open the first known Jewish ritual bath, or mikveh, in West Africa. Yisroel Ozen, a prominent Chabad emissary based in Nigeria, is supervising the construction of a mikveh for women in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on land purchased for him by an Israeli firm operating in the country, the Israeli daily Maariv reported Tuesday ... ....

New Issue of Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (Historical Society of Pennsylvania)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Apr 2016

(Source. Historical Society of Pennsylvania) ... Read about grand juries in the Whiskey Rebellion trials, the effects of the Fugitive Slave Act on Maryland resident Ned Harper, James Buchanan's 'right-hand man,' the failed relationship between architect Louis Kahn and Philadelphia's Mikveh Israel, and much more. Contents include. A Tale of a Whiskey Rebellion Judge ... Marcia C ... Michael Todd Landis Mikveh Israel and Louis Kahn. New Information ....

What Makes a Jew a Jew? Cont'd

Edit The Atlantic 15 Apr 2016

That question is addressed in the following video alongside the question, “What makes someone Black?”—and it’s a really great complement to our reader thread.. Here’s an overview of that documentary, Little White Lie, which our video team featured last summer. ... Here’s Alex.. It was good to correspond with you a few days ago ... One more story, from Maia. ... We did the mikveh and the baby naming and all that....

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 ...