Mikveh

Project to make Tel Hebron’s Second Temple mikveh accessible to visitors nearly complete, INPA says

Burda added that visitors to the site will be able to learn about the bath’s significance, its place within daily life, and “momentarily experience the religious and social reality of that era.”

Aerial photo of Tel Hebron's Second Temple period mikvah, April 30, 2026.
 Restored mikveh in White Stork Synagogue, Wroclaw, Poland.

Ministry publishes list of mikvaot with shelters nearly two weeks into war, following ITIM appeal

THE RITUAL purification bath (mikveh) from the Second Temple period.

Israel uncovers Second Temple-period mikveh beneath Western Wall

A new mikveh ritual bath in the Jewish settlement of Bat Ayin in Gush Etzion, West Bank, November 6, 2019.

Amid war, fight begins to keep religious ritual bath houses open


Our proximity to holiness requires our utmost caution

The strict barriers put up between impurity and holiness mean that throughout their lives, humans will invariably be barred from approaching God’s presence in the holiest of places.

A mikveh [ritual bath]

Mayyim Hayyim mikvah in Massachusetts closes to prevent coronavirus spread

Like many other mikvahs, Mayyim Hayyim had remained open even after other Jewish institutions shut down, employing enhanced cleaning procedures in mitigate risk.

A mikveh [ritual bath]

Mikvah-peeping Rabbi Barry Freundel set to be released early from prison

Freundel, 68, who began serving his prison term in May 2015, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years after pleading guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism, a charge that carries up to a year’s incarceration.

Rabbi Barry Freundel

Concern rising over mikveh use amid coronavirus epidemic

Orthodox women arbiters of Jewish law tell women not to immerse in mikvaot if they cannot confirm hygiene of mikveh, prominent religious-Zionist leader tells women not to delay immersion

A mikve, the Jewish ritual bath [Illustrative]

73-year-old man found dead in Jerusalem mikveh

The circumstances surrounding the man's death are not yet known.

Ambulance

Yom Kippur: The soul’s mikveh of purification

We will try to understand the principle of vidui according to one of the greatest Mishnaic sages, Rabbi Akiva.

A mikveh [ritual bath]

Hebrew inscription discovered in ancient Jewish ritual bath in Sicily

For centuries, the island was home to numerous thriving Jewish communities. Jewish life came to an end when Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492.

Jewish ritual bath beneath the Church of St. Philip the Apostle; Syracuse, Italy.

The mikveh monologues

DR. ELLA KANNER: Moving the mikveh into the public discourse.

When women tell the truth about mikveh

"Mikva the Musical: Music and Monologues from the Deep" uses theater to open up a sometimes taboo topic.

Women of the ‘Mikva’: Sarah Landman, Michele Thaler, Adina Feldman, Malka Abrahams (seated) and Yael Valier

For the sake of Heaven?

In every generation, we have an element of the Korah story. Divisiveness is justified by invoking the name of God and the inability to change any aspect of Torah.

Pool of a medieval ‘mikve’ in Speyer, Germany, dating back to 1128