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Bath/Mikveh
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“Mikveh” (pl.
mikva’ot), literally referring to a “gathering” as in a “gathering of water” (
mikveh mayim; Lev 11:36), is today commonly used to designate a humanmade deep, stepped pool that is being used for ritual immersion and purification from the state of impurity caused, for instance, by contact with sexual fluids or diseases. Archaeological excavations and surveys have uncovered hundreds of such water installations in the southern Levant, mainly in modern Israel but also in the West Bank, southern Lebanon, and western Jordan.Textual SourcesThe Old Testament records that …
Date:
2024-01-19
