Mikvé

The Mikvé (or mikveh ) (in Hebrew: מִקְוָה ; in the plural: mikvaot ) is a ritual bath used for the Ablution necessary to the rites of Pureté in the Judaïsme. It is one of the central places of the Jewish Community life, with the Synagog, the Jewish school, the Yeshiva.

The principal use of mikvé today is the Rituel of purification of the women after the periods of Menstruation or Accouchement. The total immersion of the body in the water of mikvé forms also part of the process of conversion to the Judaism. Certain traditions also want that the Jewish woman goes to mikvé the sound day before marriage.

Certain men (especially in the current hassidic) go regularly to mikvé the day before the festivals of the Jewish Calendrier as for the Chabbat, and some go there every morning before the prayer of the morning. Also, the bodies of the Jews deceased are soaked in one mikvé at the time of the Tahara, before their burial.

The rules which govern the mikvaot are complex, and are defined in the homonymous treaty of the Mishnah. Water (or at least first quantity poured in the cistern) should not be poured there, therefore the rainwater is generally the source most used to initialize one mikvé.

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''' Association MIKVE FRANCE ''' under the authority of charged with the mikvaot near the Chief rabbi of France has the role to promote any action relating to Mikvaot

“The Mikvah” - by Rivkah Slonim

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