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Chazal using calculus
There is a Mirkeves HaMishneh on Rambam Hilchot T'rumot 13:5 that discusses your latter case and goes through the calculation, which is a discrete calculation of repeated mixings. It's a difficult one ...
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Ritual immersion with washing of the body?
No, the immersion is just a dunk in the water. It doesn't require any kind of scrubbing. The Rambam writes in Hilchot Mikvaot 1:2 כָּל מָקוֹם שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בַּתּוֹרָה רְחִיצַת בָּשָׂר וְכִבּוּס ...
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Ritual immersion with washing of the body?
The purpose of tevillah (ritual immersion) is not for cleaning, it is to rid oneself of impurity.
There is, however, a problem of chatzitza (seeration) - if, for example, your leg was caked with dirt ...
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How important is hygiene beyond required washing and mikvah immersion to Jews?
As Yaacov Deane wrote in his answer, the Rambam puts great emphasis on a hygienical life and says that we must life healthy in order to serve our Creator. We must, according tot the Rambam, "...
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How important is hygiene beyond required washing and mikvah immersion to Jews?
The Gemara (Shabbos 50b) says that one should wash his face, hands and feet every day, to honor his creator, and Rashi explains because man was created in His image
Also, Rashi (Devarim 14:1) explains ...
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Should a man say a bracha if immersing in a mikvah?
The Mateh Efrayim (606:17) rules that even though there is a Mitzvah to toivel, one does not make a beracha.
כל טבילות אלו שטובל בערב יום הכיפורים, אף על פי שהם מצוה, אינו מברך עליהם
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Tevilas Ezra on Shabbos
The משנה ברורה speaks about this in 326:24
וכתבו האחרונים דמ"מ נראה דמותר לטבול לקריו כיון דנתבטל התקנה ומותר בתורה ובתפלה אפילו קודם טבילה וכנ"ל בסי' פ"ח א"כ לא מחזי כמתקן ע"...
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If a baal keri goes to the Mikvah at night are they still a Tevul Yom?
The Posuk says ובא חשמש וטהר Only when the sun has set is the Cohen טהור. As per previous comment he would have to wait until the next evening
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Can a woman take a spoon with her to the mikvah?
This is an excellent question. Here are some thoughts that may help.
The practicality of the situation is somewhat hard to get, since she would have to leave go during the tevila and going that would ...
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How important is hygiene beyond required washing and mikvah immersion to Jews?
Good hygiene is a part of the obligation to maintain one’s health which an essential element of serving G-d.
This is explained by Rambam in his Mishneh Torah, Yesodei HaTorah, Hilchot De’ot, chapter 4....
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Attire in the men's mikveh
It's not just in the mikvah, it's not just men, and it's not just a bath, witness this story from the Talmud:
A certain woman came before Rabbi Yoḥanan and told him that every time she came out of ...
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Attire in the men's mikveh
Yalkut Yosef Hashkamat Haboker Siman 2 Halacha 2:
It is permissible to go about in the nude as necessary in a public
bathhouse. This is not considered immodest behaviour.
The normal practice in a ...
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