Mikvah Video

“According to Jewish law, so long as a legal contract is not contested, it is not fully authenticated. Only after it stands up to a challenge is its authenticity fully confirmed. Now that you have overcome your opposition, you will proceed even stronger than before.”

Immersing in a mikvah (a ritual pool of water) purifies one who is ritually impure. Discover five layers of meaning to mikvah.

Study the daily lesson of Sefer HaMitzvos for day 238 with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, where he teaches the mitzvah in-depth with added insight and detail.

The Rebbe gives instructions and blessings to a cantor who will lead the High Holidays services.

“Every additional mikvah is accelerating the arrival of our righteous redeemer.”

Rabbi Yechiel Michel Stern is a prolific author and rabbi of the Ezrat Torah neighborhood in Jerusalem. In the early 1980s, he served on Israel’s ministry of religious services, supervising numerous mikvahs in Jerusalem and across Israel.

A detailed analysis of the famous 13th-century mikveh in Friedberg Germany, and other medieval mikvaot, looking at the architecture, and attempting to answer the question, why were they dug so deep?

The last Mishnah of chapter 7 of Tractate Mikvaot deals with how to overcome physical challenges that one may encounter when attempting to successfully achieve ritual immersion in a mikveh. This class will reveal the spiritual dimension of this teaching and, accordingly, its message of how to overcome the inevitable obstacles to personal purity. (Based on Sefer Hasichos 5750 p. 695)

Study the daily lesson of Sefer HaMitzvos for day 239 with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, where he teaches the mitzvah in-depth with added insight and detail.

Study the daily lesson of Sefer HaMitzvos for day 240 with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, where he teaches the mitzvah in-depth with added insight and detail.

Study the daily lesson of Sefer HaMitzvos for day 241 with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, where he teaches the mitzvah in-depth with added insight and detail.

Study the daily lesson of Sefer HaMitzvos for day 242 with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, where he teaches the mitzvah in-depth with added insight and detail.

The unique role of the Jewish woman is described in terms of three archetypical mitzvahs—Shabbat candles, family purity and kosher. How do traditional ideas of Jewish femininity compare to modern feminist ideas about the role of women in society?

While Jewish education is all about active participation, the mitzvah of Mikvah is a private act. Both are essential for Jewish survival.

Meet Luiz Fernando and Amanda Chimanovitch: Though they don't consider themselves "religious", this couple wants to share the beauty of the mitzvah of mikvah.

The mitzvah of immersing in the ritual pool known as a mikvah is the cornerstone of Jewish married life. With this mitzvah, women bring tranquility and harmony to their families.

Learn the profound mystical meaning and beautiful symbolism of the mitzvah of Mikvah and Family Purity, and discover how intimacy that’s graced by the blessings of marriage can be sanctified.

What does Judaism say about marital intimacy? Introduce meaning and sanctity into your marriage with the beautiful observances of mikvah. This class is the sixth lecture of a six-part series titled ‘The Essentials,’ which introduces the foundations of Jewish life and living.

Your uncle built many, many Mikvahs, but since he has passed on, no one has taken his place. Here are ten dollars for the first ten Mikvahs you will build.

The Sages teach that the Holy Temple was destroyed on account of unwarranted hatred, and will be rebuilt through unwarranted love. Rabbi Pinchas Weberman recalls a private audience in 1973 where the Rebbe explained just how literal this teaching is.

In the 1970s the Rebbe issued a call for a campaign to strengthen and promote the observance of Family Purity among all segments of the Jewish community.

This Talmud class discusses the naked truth on absolute immersion and the nature of separation for ritual purity. Offering sources of skin separations from purifying waters. (Talmud tractate Sukkah 6a-b)