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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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Netilat Yadayim with public water fountain
The more interesting question is how exactly to use said fountain. (Hopefully you have cup with you.)
While you shouldn't do a mitzvah with a stolen object, there is no requirement for the water to be ...
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Does one need to have the water fountain running while reciting the blessing?
In the sefer vzos habracha chapter 1 page 9 he brings from R’ Scheinberg to turn on the fountain (our faucet drinking straight from there) to avoid a hefsek (like the MB 206:19) and to show that the ...
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So where are these mermaids?
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration themselves have said:
Scientists estimate that 91 percent of ocean species have yet to be
classified, and that more than eighty percent of our ...
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So where are these mermaids?
Rabbi Slifkin addresses Mermaides, concluding that they are probably dolphins, in a post entitled "The Wisdom of ArtScroll" (for once, not sarcastically) which he features in his book Sacred ...
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