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amother
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 Fri, Sep 29 2017, 10:44 am
| amother wrote: | Thank you, thank you.
Now why does one go? |
To quote another poster
| doctorima wrote: | | Definitely not a must, but a nice thing to do that's practiced in some communities. The idea behind it is the same as for men - additional kedusha and tahara for Yom Kippur. |
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Chayalle
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Fri, Sep 29 2017, 10:55 am
| amother wrote: | | This is only a minhag which one follows if ones mother does so. |
My mother did this, and it's not DH's minhag, so I don't. I asked about this - as a nod to my mother's minhag, I spend an extra minute under the shower letting the water run all over me. My teen DD's do the same (actually, I think they do this all the time anyway....the amount of time they spend in the shower on a normal basis.....)
My mother used to tell me a cute story about a Chassidish cousin of hers whose father was a Rav in Chicago in the post holocaust era. When this cousin was in the 8th grade, a teacher decided to tell the class that when they get married they must go to mikvah (since some students were continuing to public high school).
This very sheltered young lady came home and asked her mother about married women going the mikvah...to which her mother responded - you know that I go every Erev Yom HaKadosh (Y"K).....
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amother
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Fri, Sep 29 2017, 11:46 am
| amother wrote: | | They don't provide robes they provide flat bed sheets to wrap yourself in. There is a long line of women standing in sheets or robes from at home waiting to dip one after another. My suggestion is to bring an easy zip up robe that you can wear while standing in line without anything underneath so you can dip and quickly get back dressed. |
I would not be comfortable standing in line wrapped in a towel.
No one in my line was wearing a towel. You wear your regular clothes or a bathrobe and take it off in the Mikvah.
(I wear easy to take off clothes, but clothes nonetheless)
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