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Definition of Mikvah
1. Noun. (Hebrew) a ritual purification and cleansing bath that Orthodox Jews take on certain occasions (as before Sabbath or after menstruation).
Definition of Mikvah
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of mikveh) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mikvah
1. a place for ritual bathing by Orthodox Jews [n -VAHS or -VOTH or -VOT or -VOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mikvah
Literary usage of Mikvah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Yohale Sarah: Containing Religious Duties of the Daughters of Israel and by Abraham Eber Hirschowitz (1918)
"As it has already been mentioned that a woman is only allowed to go to "mikvah",
when she is certain of having carefully removed from her person any speck ..."
2. New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud (1903)
"Concerning mikvah, one regulation only was enacted; viz.: If the water running
out of a rain-gutter flow directly into a mikvah, the mikvah is not ..."
3. American Jewish Year Book by American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America (1907)
"mikvah Israel, Chevra, 19th and Valencia. Org. Feb. 3 1907 Proa B. Diller, 1415
Devisadero; Treas., PN Lilienthal, Anglo-Californ «n Bank; Sec., ..."
4. The Jewish Travel Guide by Betsy Sheldon (2001)
"A large congregation with a mikvah. B'nai Torah Congregation, ... mikvah.
Shaarei Shomayim, 470 Glencairn Ave., « 416-789-3213, www. shomayim.org. ..."
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