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Definition of mikva in English: mikvanoun ˈmɪkvə A bath in which certain Jewish ritual purifications are performed. Example sentencesExamples - Under the guidelines, new converts should spend at least a year engaged in Jewish study, face a panel of three rabbis or learned Jews and be immersed in a mikveh, or ritual bath.
- When an excited Miri and her mother left the mikveh on Monday evening, they found on their cellphone a message from Miri's only sister, 18-year-old Sharon.
- As an unmarried, not traditionally observant woman, I had never actually been to a mikva and always assumed my first visit would be on the eve of my wedding.
- ‘I remember as a young girl going to the mikveh,’ Rachel explains.
- A permanent synagogue, Shearith Israel, including a school and a mikveh (ritual bath), was completed in 1731.
- I visited a complex with a traditional schvitz (steam room) combined with three mikvas (warm, hot, and scalding) and group showers.
- A special blessing is pronounced before entering the mikva, emphasizing the holy nature of this precept.
- On January 7, 2003, I stepped into the waters of the mikveh.
- Both male and female must then immerse in a valid mikveh.
- Synagogues, mikvas (ritual baths) and cemeteries have been preserved in many places in the environs of Lublin and Podlassia.
- So the end of the story is I went to the mikveh and renounced my Christianity.
- Schools, shuls, mikvas and community centers began to spring up.
- They reconstruct synagogues, build new mikvas, organize ulpans for those who wish to learn Hebrew, let people experience a kosher Shabbat or simply eat and rest at the ‘Jewish Agency's’ cost.
- Only mikvehs (ritual purification baths) will operate as usual.
- Chabad and AYS partnered to rebuild the mikva, located behind A. Y. Synagogue, in order to make it a state-of-the-art mikva and bring its level of Kashrut to the highest.
- Today a mere remnant of this once-vibrant community survives, but in the 1950's the Bronx offered synagogues, mikvas, kosher bakeries, and kosher butchers - all the comforts one would expect from an observant Orthodox Jewish community.
- The area is marked by many mikvehs, or ritual baths, in which every Jew entering the Temple area had to immerse.
- By the time I had made all the purchases I needed to make, the sun was almost setting, Shabbat had nearly arrived, and the mikva had closed.
- Then we started keeping Shabbat, then kashrut, then I started to go to the mikveh.
- We can build thousands of synagogues, mikvas, cemeteries and hotels, as well as tens of thousands of homes.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Yiddish mikve, from Hebrew miqweh, literally 'collection (usually of water)'. |