{"id":7930,"date":"2012-07-24T18:24:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noahideworldcenter.org\/wp_en\/mikwe-for-noahides\/"},"modified":"2012-07-24T18:24:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:24:24","slug":"mikwe-for-noahides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/mikwe-for-noahides\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikwe for noahides ?.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b><\/b> Mikwe for noahides ?..<\/p>\n<p>Shalom,<\/p>\n<p>I have read the response of the rabbi in &#8216;ask the tabbi &#8216; about the mikwe.<\/p>\n<p>I give the QA:<\/p>\n<p>2. Is a Noahide allowed to immerse himself in a mikveh (a ritual bath)? A: Yes, as long as he does it with the intention of purifying himself but not with the intention of becoming a Jew.<\/p>\n<p>3. If the answer is yes, what are suitable words or a prayer for a Noahide to recite when immersing in a mikveh?  A: &#171;vezarakti aleichem mayim tehorim utehartem mikol tum&#8217;oteichem umikol gilulechem ataher etchem&#187; (&#171;I will sprinkle pure water upon you and you will be purified. I will purify you from all your uncleaness and from all your fetishes&#187;) (Ezekiel 36:25).<\/p>\n<p>My questions:<\/p>\n<p>When and how can a noahide become impure ?<\/p>\n<p>What do you exactly mean by &#8216;purifying&#8217; ?<\/p>\n<p>Particularly ex christians feel themselves guilty by the fact that they believed in the trinity of G&#8217;d and have prayed to Jesus, as if he is G&#8217;d. They feel as if they were idolators, worhipping an idol, one of the seven laws benee noah.<\/p>\n<p>They want to do teshuva.<\/p>\n<p>What is your advise for that ? What shall they do ?<\/p>\n<p>Is a mikweh a advisable practice in such cases\/ aveirot (sins) ?<\/p>\n<p>In most situations a mikweh is not avaiable, but maybe a see or river. Can it used as mikweh ? When is it a mikweh and when not ?<\/p>\n<p>The mikweh is only valible when used naked. When you go to a river or see, which can be used as mikweh, is it an obligation for noahides to do it also naked ?<\/p>\n<p>Mattitjahu<br \/><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Name:Name<br \/>Email:QEmail<br \/>Details:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikwe for noahides ?.. Shalom, I have read the response of the rabbi in &#8216;ask the tabbi &#8216; about the mikwe. I give the QA: 2. Is a Noahide allowed to immerse himself in a mikveh (a ritual bath)? A: Yes, as long as he does it with the intention of purifying himself but not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basic-concepts-unanswered"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}