Timeline for Can I use a Mikvah if I am not Jewish?
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| Oct 15, 2014 at 20:21 | comment | added | Daniel | It is a bigger chiddush that non Jews are allowed to go into a pool of rainwater than that they are not? I think you've got it backwards. | |
| Oct 15, 2014 at 19:56 | comment | added | Dude | I'm not the one making up halacha. there are mitzvahs for yidden and mitzvahs for b'nei noach. it is a greater chidduch to say it is permissible than not. you provide your sources that clearly say it is okay | |
| Oct 15, 2014 at 2:47 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | @Dude, unless you back up your assertions with sources, you are making up your own halachot, which is no better than non-Jews making up their own mitzvot. | |
| Oct 15, 2014 at 2:27 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | But we hold Tevillah doesn't need Kavana. Why isn't it correct for non-Jews to perform some Mitzvot that Jews are obligated in? | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 21:16 | comment | added | Dude | while it's true that natural bodies of water can be used as mikva it is clear to anyone not being deliberately obtuse that this was not what I was referring to. Still though I don't think it is appropriate to even use a natural body of water for the purpose of mikva if you aren't Jewish. There are mitzvas for Jews and mitzvas for non Jews and it isn't correct for non-Jews to simply make up their own mitzvas. This is a great resource for more information... noahidenations.com & chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380332/jewish/… | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 19:27 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | @Dude Some are, but most are not. I don't know why that is at all relevant. Do you have any source or reason for the last sentence of your comment or is it just your conjecture? | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 19:26 | comment | added | Dude | @yes AA they are built for the Jewish community.user6591 whether I'm hasidic or not has nothing to do with this question. Can provide me a source that a goy should also use a mikvah if going for yechidus? The reason for Jews to use the mikvah don't apply to non-Jews. Another example of the same concept... in the shulchan aruch it is discussed that someone Jewish who hasn't washed negel vaser from when they woke up if they handle bread that bread should not be eaten, however, there is no such problem for non-Jews. I don't think it is appropriate for someone who isn't Jewish to visit a mikvah. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 19:10 | history | edited | Dude | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 19:05 | comment | added | user6591 | Dude. Im gonna guess you're not hassidic. Have you never gone to a tish or to get a bracha from a rebbe? If my guess is wrong scratch it, replace it with a different religious denomination and fill in the blank with the practices mentioned with something associated with the new mashal. You give no reason why a person can't choose to experience something outside of his radar. He is not making a shabbos or a holiday for himself. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 19:04 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | "Mikvahs are specifically built for the Jewish community" This is certainly not true of all Mikvahs. I don't know why even given that you conclude a non-Jew shouldn't go. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:55 | history | answered | Dude | CC BY-SA 3.0 |