Comments on: Mikveh: Sacred, Sensual Gray Waters Far From Green https://www.greenprophet.com/2010/05/mikveh-sensual-water-green/ Sustainably Driven. Future Ready. Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:43:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Karin Kloosterman https://www.greenprophet.com/2010/05/mikveh-sensual-water-green/#comment-7437 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:43:59 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=21355#comment-7437 In reply to Anin.

I think there are probably many different interpretations on the “why”, and that many sources should be consulted if someone is looking for this answer.

]]> By: Anin https://www.greenprophet.com/2010/05/mikveh-sensual-water-green/#comment-7436 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:41:01 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=21355#comment-7436 1. I think you meant “with total reverence”, otherwise your sentence doesn’t make sense.
2. Women do not go to the mikve because they’ve “handled blood”. The reason for going to the mikve is because the period represents the loss of potential life, a form of death, and immersion in the mikve spiritually cleanses from the contact with death.
3. Many men go to the mikve every day.
4. For more information on the meaning of the mikve see Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan’s “Waters of Eden”.

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