mikveh
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- noun
- /ˈmɪk.və/
- Alone in the mikveh, Mayyim Hayyim offers a beautiful, peaceful, and sacred sanctuary to connect to God.
Examples
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Instead, I hear the quiet movement of the water as she steps into the mikveh.
Blog text (1) -
The purpose of the Mikveh bath is to purify women for any public or private contact.
Fiction book (1999) -
Often I hear the gentle murmuring of the mikveh guide softly offering instruction and support.
Blog text (1) -
ISRAEL: During the construction of a mikveh, or ritual bath, in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter, archaeologists found an older bathing pool, built and used by the Roman Tenth Legion.
Academic text (2011) -
She told me about a new movement among Jewish women to reclaim the Mikveh bath, a traditional cleansing ritual done by Jewish women a week after they complete their monthly menses.
Fiction book (1999) -
After attending the synagogue service, she felt a sense of renewal as she entered the mikveh for her ritual purification.
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The community gathered to celebrate the new mikveh, a place for women to perform their purification rites.
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As part of her preparation for marriage, she scheduled a visit to the mikveh to fulfill the traditional purification practice.
Synonyms
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A special bath Jewish people use to become clean for religious reasons
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mikveh comes from Hebrew and the root q-w-h, which means 'to gather', because it originally meant water 'gathered' in one place. So a mikveh is a pool of collected water used as a ritual bath for cleaning in Jewish practice.