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- noun Alternative form of
mikveh .
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Examples
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There is no reason for a mikva to need a shul– in fact, the older mikva in my community is in a converted house.
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When I passed through there one morning on a Jeep tour, the tubs afforded a sanctuary, a geothermal mikva, amid the denuded landscape.
NYT > Travel By ANDY ISAACSON 2009
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It's a nice idea, but unless it provides a rapid response to the dumb stories the float around the mikva (i.e. like this post) I don't see it taking off.
DovBear 2009
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When I passed through there one morning on a Jeep tour, the tubs afforded a sanctuary, a geothermal mikva, amid the denuded landscape.
NYT > Travel 2009
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When I passed through there one morning on a Jeep tour, the tubs afforded a sanctuary, a geothermal mikva, amid the denuded landscape.
NYT > Travel 2009
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When I passed through there one morning on a Jeep tour, the tubs afforded a sanctuary, a geothermal mikva, amid the denuded landscape.
NYT > Travel 2009
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Hamilton also uncovered the Byzantine mosaic floor and beneath it a mikva (ritual bath) from the Second Temple period, which he pointedly did not include in the publication about the mosque, but instead photographed and labeled in a file about the mosque, archeologist Zachi Zweig said on Sunday.
THE BLACK KETTLE 2008
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