mikveh

Noun

Meaning

mikveh (plural mikvehs or mikveot or mikvos or mikvot or mikvoth)

(Judaism) A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed.

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Fairly recent excavations revealed both a mikveh (Jewish ritual bath) and a tomb from that same era. Source: Internet

The cup (pictured left) was found in four pieces within a fill layer containing 1st century pottery fragments above a barrel-vaulted ceiling of a mikveh. Source: Internet

The coins were discovered in soil that the Western Wall's builders had used to fill in a mikveh, cisterns and cellars over which the Western Wall was built. Source: Internet

One set is owned by Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia’s colonial Sephardic congregation; another is owned by Shearith Israel; and a third set is also housed at Touro. Source: Internet

She is currently in self-imposed quarantine at home with her family, and as her mikveh date approached, she became increasingly worried about going. Source: Internet

The convert goes into the mikveh as a non-Jew and emerges a Jew. Source: Internet

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