Mikvehs

Most mikvehs have a container to collect rainwater and mix a little bit of that in with heated tap water -- just the little bit is enough to count. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The archeological excavations of Masada demonstrate that even while under siege by the Romans in a place where water was scarce, the Jews built mikvehs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jewish immigrants to the United States appeared to have largely abandoned the practice of niddah, but many communities in America continued to construct mikvehs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As early as 1759 in New York and 1784 in Philadelphia, small Jewish communities began building mikvehs, imploring local Jews not to neglect the laws of family purity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Two mikvehs were found, each to the exact specifications mandated by halakhah. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The mohels, and the synagogues and the community centers and kosher butchers, and the mikvehs and the kippah makers etc. etc. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Stories like that are interesting in a depressing sort of way, but aren't there any progressive, non-traditional, or LGBT-friendly mikvehs out there? ❋ Julie (2010)

For most immigrant rabbis, the key women’s issue had to do with the traditional requirement that proper mikvehs (ritual baths) be established for those who might use them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The women do not hesitate to criticize the community’s authorities, in three areas in particular: faulty management of financial resources, mistaken priorities, and negative attitudes toward women, as expressed in the state of the mikvehs and the women’s sections in synagogues, and the blaming of women for tragedies in the community. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet, despite the continuing existence of mikvehs in America, Jewish leaders consistently lamented women’s indifference to the laws of ritual purity and seemed to be addressing a population in which most Jews had ceased to observe the practice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[The jews] [decided] to [take] a mikveh ❋ Chriscollins44! (2020)

Me and my buddy were having a great morning shooting out on Forest Service land until a couple of noobs with zero target [acquisition] skills and good sense showed up and took a massive [shit in the mikveh] by sending a bunch of 5.56 across our [baffles]. ❋ Tin Hat Kippah (2020)