Sentences with word «mikveh»

The other example of a contemporary mikveh with an attached bathroom is at a site excavated in Jerusalem in the nearby Jewish Quarter.

Yes, rather than look for «baptism» look for ceremonial washings and in other Jewish literature, the mikveh.

The baptismal process is called a mikveh.

It was called a mikveh.

Shimon Gibson, the British - born archaeologist co-directing the UNC Charlotte excavation, notes that the addition of the bathroom to the mikveh is a clear sign of the wealth and status of the resident.

Finds include the well - preserved rooms of a very large mansion, a Jewish ritual pool (mikveh) and a bathroom, both with their ceilings intact.»

Particularly important in the season's discoveries were a buried vaulted chamber that has proven to be an unusual finished bathroom (with bathtub) adjacent to a large below - ground ritual cleansing pool (mikveh)-- only the fourth bathroom to be found in Israel from the Second Temple period, with two of the others found in palaces of Herod the Great at Jericho and Masada.

Furthermore, after the ceremony, the woman assumes the nidah once again «with each onset of a menstrual period, and marital relations must then be suspended until she immerses herself, once more, in a mikveh, at least one week after the completion of each menstrual period.»

The law adds that «just prior to her marriage ceremony she removes the nidah status, in accordance with Jewish law, by immersing herself in the waters of a mikveh (a body of water used only for spiritual sanctification), and may then be approached by her husband.»

In a handful of simple, uplifting images that include the ritual immersion of a mikveh and the acquisition of a more imposing new wardrobe, the film leaves us with the impression of a man taking the necessary steps to make himself whole again, and perhaps in time his family, too.

Or maybe it was when I accompanied the rabbi to the mikveh [Jewish ritual bath].»