NOUN
- (Hebrew) a ritual purification and cleansing bath that Orthodox Jews take on certain occasions (as before Sabbath or after menstruation)
How To Use mikvah In A Sentence
- In my class, we were discussing how the ritual of the mikvah is less statement on women's role in respect to men, and more an attempt to continue a faith so strongly tied to blood line. Can you love God and feminism? - Feministing
- The Bozeman suite includes a jetted bathtub and a shower, both of which a woman uses before entering the mikvah, which is tiled in shades of brown and could pass for an elegant bath in a multimillion-dollar home at Big Sky, the swank resort area between Bozeman and Yellowstone National Park. Local News from Tuscaloosa News
- Non-Orthodox Jews are rediscovering the mikvah (ritual bath), and Reform Judaism's growing interest in ritual practice is particularly striking considering the movement's founding rejection of such "ideas entirely foreign to our present [1880s] mental and spiritual state. Paul Golin: What Is the Biggest Divide in the Jewish Community?
- Previously, the court had denied Ben Haim's request to remove his electronic monitor so that he could immerse himself in a "mikvah," a traditional Jewish ritual bath. Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)
- The synagogue was built in 1901 on land given by Sir Jacob Sassoon and his family and includes a Mikvah (ritual bath).
- One of the meanings of the Hebrew word mikvah is hope. Fire, Water, and Hope
- Also, it was really more of a "mikvah" than a "pool" but I think that's just semantics. Yo, Yenta!
- The mikvah is a bathhouse usually used by women for ritual cleansing. FailedMessiah.com