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21st August 2009, 09:47 AM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | | Mikvah Are there any Messianic Jews who go to the mikvah and if so, where?
I am a Christian with some Jew in my ancestry. I have been reading about mikvah and am quite drawn to it.
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25th August 2009, 05:08 PM
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26th August 2009, 01:55 AM
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Reps: 1,941,072,541,170,636,288 (power: 1,941,072,541,170,644) | | | As far as mikvot the only one we have in my city is at the Orthodox synagogue and they are very strict about not allowing Messianic Jews to mikvah there.
One of the gals at my Messianic synagogue took two other gals with her to a secluded river where no one else was as lookout for her as she mikvahed.
I see no reason why a Messianic Jew should not be able to mikvah.
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28th August 2009, 02:25 PM
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Reps: 28,322,205,574,161,772 (power: 28,322,205,574,174) | | | Yes I agree, that I have found no regulation that would explain the reason a Messianic Jew would be excluded from the Mikvah. We are free to build our own I suppose. It is one of my projects I hope to get to this winter. Just need to find the special supplies.
Bananna
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30th August 2009, 12:34 PM
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Reps: 1,916,932,664,221,907,456 (power: 1,916,932,664,221,920) | | Originally Posted by Bananna We are free to build our own I suppose. It is one of my projects I hope to get to this winter. Just need to find the special supplies.
Bananna
What "plans" are you using to build it?
Do Messianics have a set criteria as to
how it should be built?
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30th August 2009, 12:48 PM
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Reps: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (power: 9,223,372,036,854,820) | | Originally Posted by ChavaK What "plans" are you using to build it?
Do Messianics have a set criteria as to
how it should be built? No but if orthodox Judaism has some good examples... we may take some of their ideas and incorporate them into our own.
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30th August 2009, 12:50 PM
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30th August 2009, 12:53 PM
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Reps: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (power: 9,223,372,036,854,820) | | Originally Posted by Talmidah There is no halacha in place that governs this issue? I'd think there would be if it were so important to Messiahists.
Because we don't wait on formality.... Acts 8:36
As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, "Look, here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized?"
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30th August 2009, 12:55 PM
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Reps: 828,821,387,425,343 (power: 828,821,387,440) | | | So are you guys talking strictly about baptism? Or an actual mikvah to use for halachic purposes like taharat hamishpacha?
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30th August 2009, 12:57 PM
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Reps: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (power: 9,223,372,036,854,820) | | | I know my mikvah for sexual contact and monthlies is done in the privacy of the home.. how about you?
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