mikvah
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mikvah
from Hebrew
Example Sentences
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He talks with Anita Diamant, the author and founding president of Mayyim Hayyim, which reimagines the Jewish purifying ritual of mikvah bathing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
There, they would wipe each block clean with a cloth, stack it in the congregation’s brand-new mikvah, and leave it to melt.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
They bathed in a ritual bath, or mikvah, on the banks of the Gera River and buried their dead in a large cemetery just outside the city walls.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 30, 2022
In Efrat, a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank where one of the first Israeli outbreaks of coronavirus occurred, a woman visited the mikvah without realizing she was infected.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2020
“Then this is your mikvah in preparation for your new life in the camp.”
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
“The question was posed to me by communities in Europe and the U.S., where mikvahs have been closed for months and where there are strict directives not to leave the house at all,” said Amsalem.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2020
When most of the country was completely locked down for the Passover holiday, the women’s mikvahs were not.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2020
The Israeli government, in keeping mikvahs open, issued new safety guidelines.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2020
There’s nothing wrong with stained-glass windows or mikvahs or minarets or religious schools.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2017
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