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30th August 2009, 04:42 PM
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30th August 2009, 08:00 PM
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My previous rebbetzin has a cousin in Alaska. Before the mikvah was built there, she flew to Washington state every month to use the mikvah. It's not like it's something that a Jewish woman does simply because it's a nice thing to do. It is a requirement and she must arrange her life accordingly.
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31st August 2009, 12:13 AM
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exactly....the first thing that community builds is a mikveh...shuls
and schools can wait. A mikvah takes priority.
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19th October 2009, 04:19 AM
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My previous rebbetzin has a cousin in Alaska. Before the mikvah was built there, she flew to Washington state every month to use the mikvah. It's not like it's something that a Jewish woman does simply because it's a nice thing to do. It is a requirement and she must arrange her life accordingly.
What happens if you dont have the money to fly once a month?
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19th October 2009, 08:47 AM
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My previous rebbetzin has a cousin in Alaska. Before the mikvah was built there, she flew to Washington state every month to use the mikvah. It's not like it's something that a Jewish woman does simply because it's a nice thing to do. It is a requirement and she must arrange her life accordingly.
Did she really have to go through that much trouble? A lake or the sea could very well serve as a mikvah.
In fact, local Chabad has even used a swimming pool from time to time...
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21st October 2009, 12:27 AM
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In Alaska? Brrrrrrr... In fact, local Chabad has even used a swimming pool from time to time...
That's hard to believe- a swimming pool does not meet the halachic requirements for a mikveh.
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The swimming pool belonged to a member. They made the necessary adjustments. 
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The swimming pool belonged to a member. They made the necessary adjustments
those must have been some adjustments....must not have been much of
a swimming pool after that, LOL.
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22nd October 2009, 11:29 AM
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Reps: 59,589,388,507,789 (power: 59,589,388,512) | | Originally Posted by ChavaK those must have been some adjustments....must not have been much of
a swimming pool after that, LOL.
All I know is that it used to be a swimming pool, belonging to an old lady - and she agreed to turn it into a mikveh for a price.
To be honest with you, I never got to see it. Neither before, nor after any eventual changes that might have been made to the place. I never went to that mikveh, but I oftentimes heard them saying they were going to or coming from that place. Chabad folks loved doing mikveh all the time, but I think only men used that one. Sometimes they'd go twice on Shabbat: before sunset and on Saturday morning. 
Now they have another mikveh they built for the community.
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