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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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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.

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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.

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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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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.:thumbsup:
 
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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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It's not a matter of fortunate. It's a matter of priority and Halacha.

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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It's not a matter of fortunate. It's a matter of priority and Halacha.

exactly....the first thing that community builds is a mikveh...shuls
and schools can wait. A mikvah takes priority.
 
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It's not a matter of fortunate. It's a matter of priority and Halacha.

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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It's not a matter of fortunate. It's a matter of priority and Halacha.

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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Did she really have to go through that much trouble? A lake or the sea could very well serve as a mikvah.
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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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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