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under what circumstances is it muttar to go to the mikvah on shabbos or yom tov (for a male, optional tevillah)?
under what circumstances is it muttar to go to the mikvah on shabbos or yom tov (for a male, optional tevillah)?
Kohen Gadol on Yom Kippur. (Optional since he always has the option of stepping down and allowing another Kohen Gadol to be appointed.)
The Wolf
It’s permitted under all circumstances as long as you don’t dry any hair with a towel and are careful not to carry anything where there is no eruv.
A man can go to the mikvah on shabbos morning. Just don’t use hot water (see mishnah berurah 326:7).
Do Chasidim go to the mikva on Yom Kippur morning?
here in har nof, yerhushalayim, men toivel every day inc shabbos/yomtov except (1) tisha b’av and (2) yom kippur
“as long as you don’t dry any hair with a towel”
I believe that is permitted.
It’s not skita because the water is going from a solid to a solid. It’s even better than squeezing a lemon onto fish because you don’t want the water. It’s not libun because it’s derech lichluch.
I think it’s suggested to do it by gently patting.
What Feivel said. (Although Chasidim would frown on taking any Mikvah water off at all!) Going to a hot Mikvah is quite problematic (this is a much bigger issue with women’s Mikva’os, for some reason). For lukewarm /room temp. there is much room for leniency. If you want be a Kalta Litvak, then by all means go ahead!
And Shuni – Howya doin, neighbor?
I heard Chasidim want to retain the water as mobico said because it is kodesh and precious to them.
Could be then a problem of hotza. I suppose.
The Gra was against it.
However, the custom of Chassidim is to permit, and indeed to encourage, immersion in a mikvah prior to the morning prayers on Shabbos and yom tov (for example, the custom is to immerse right before alos on the morning of Shavuous, after having immersed oneself in learning the whole night).
No issue going and no issue using a towel as it is derech lichluch. See gemara shabbos 147B
What if the filter is on???
One of my rebeeim Harav Refael Green A”H said that the Gra did go to the Mikva on Shabbos. The Stypler Gaon ZL stood in front of a fan on Shabbos after the Mikve to dry himself. Hagan HaRav Moshe Feinstein ZL held ( in egros moshe) that drying ones head lightly with a towel is mutar.
chassidim wouldnt go toival mikvah on tisha bav ,which is a drabannan but they would toival on shabbos which is a dorysa?
Michael….did you mean to say that the Stypler wouldn’t use a towel to dry himself yet felt it was OK to turn on a fan to dry himself? Or did he arrange for the fan to be turned on by someone else or simply turned on before shabbos and left running all day?
What about the Mishna Berurah Shin Chaf SK Nun Hey (last two lines)?
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=49625&st=&pgnum=293
And Shin CHaf Alef SK Chaf Alef along with the Biur Halachah?
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=49625&st=&pgnum=322
does anyone hold that if the filter is on hat its assur to go in?
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Even according to those who are mattir,everyone holds that its assur to soak in the water longer than it takes to do the actual tevillos.
I thoughts I should mention that there is a famous psak of the Baal Hatanya (one of a number of psaks that he famously made, one being the use of polished steel knives for shechita) is the use of a heating system for a mikveh on Shabbos.
*Without going into too much detail*, it is essentially based on the source of the issur itself: gzeirat haambatyaot, the decree of the bathhouses. Since in the hanhaga of Chassidim to toivel, the actual reason for the gzeira (mentioned explicitly as part of the gzeira) is not at all relevant, therefore there is no reason to prohibit it.
This explains why in many Chassidic communities there isnin fsct heating in the mikveh on Shabbos.
Filter is not a problem here because bepashtus there is no borer (what would the ochel be in this case…?)
Ysiegel
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“Filter is not a problem here because bepashtus there is no borer (what would the ochel be in this case…?)”‘No, I wasnot referring to borer…….Rather , if the filter is on , it could make the mikva not kosher…there for,you might not be able to go in
Aside from Borer, what issue could there be with a filter being turned on?
You’re not causing it to work harder (lichora) by using the mikveh. I can think of no other svara that would cause it to render the mikveh unfit for use for Shabbos…
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Ysiegel
ParticipantIf a mikva is, for whatever reason, posul—is it mutter to go in it on Shabbos?
Ysiegel, the Baal Hatanya’s innovation in mikvaos had nothing whatsoever to do with Shabbos. His two big innovations, of which he was justly proud, were the use of sharp but fragile knives for shechita, and a contraption to enable WOMEN to tovel in warm water.
There were no rainwater mikvaos in his day; therefore there was no such thing as a heated mikveh, and certainly not on Shabbos.
also, you have completely missed the point about the filter. If the filter is on the mikveh is unfit for use. Therefore using it on Shabbos would be a problem.
There are two types of filters. One draws water out of the mikva and recycles it through the zriah bor. The other type sits in the Mikvah itself and doesn’t draw water out at all. Most poskim hols, I believe, that for men toiveling is fine with either one running.
What is the Lubavitch shitta regarding mikvos that most non-Lubavitch shittos hold makes the mikva not kosher?
Lubavitchers hold of bor Al gabei bor. Others hold of zeria and neshika Boros. See Wikipedia or Google it.
The Chabad Mikvahs with the Mikvah water being on top the rain water is an innovation of the Rebbe Rashab, I believe, not the Baal HaTanya.
Non Chabad Mikvahs can also be heated. The difference is that the heating is integral for the Chabad mikvahs to stay kosher for the hot water to stay sitting utop the colder rainwater.
Unless the water is filtered on a real time basis or heavy chemical additives are incorporated into a circulation system, how would you assure the cleanliness of the water without completely draining, and cleaning of the mikvah and refilling after each use?
Hadorah: How do you think we Yidden went to the mikva during the Beis HaMikdash times? Filtered after each use? Thousands of Yidden dying from the mikva?
Slonimer, it is NOT TRUE that “most non-Lubavitch shittos hold makes the mikva not kosher”. In fact there are no such shittos. Bor al gabei bor is the most mehudar mikveh design possible, and the claim that it is possul according to *one* shita, the Divrei Chaim, (not “most” shittos) is a brazen lie that certain people once circulated for political reasons. Anyone who bothers to look up the Divrei Chaim inside sees immediately that it’s a lie.
In any case it’s irrelevant to the Baal Hatanya, because in his day there were no rainwater mikvaos at all, and therefore no question about where the best place to put the bor would be. Rainwater mikvaos only started to be built in Europe in the 19th century, which is why there was so much discussion among the poskim of the time about the ideal design for one.
Milhouse:
You’re just straight up wrong. Why are you trying to lecture people on their own shittahs? Are you a Lubavitcher or something?
We know how we hold, and we hold that Chabad mikvahs are not good. Not everything has to be a big controversial insult. Yidden are allowed to have differences in halachic shittah; it’s not a big deal unless you make it one.
Anyway, this thread has wandered quite far from being about Shabbos.
Hey Joey….no evidence that “thousands died from mikvah related contamination” (which isn’t something I’d joke about but you have your own standards as to what is funny). My question was more in the nature of the specific filtration/decontamination mechanisms used TODAY at state of the art mikvos, both Chabad and otherwise, and what are the means for keeping the filtering process operative for use on shabbos for those who choose to toivel on shabbos.
NevilleChaimBerliner
Perhaps back up your “piskei halacha” with some actual sources?
Millhouse quoted sources. You can disagree but why not just say *why* you think him to be wrong.I’m not arguing with him on the status of the mikvahs; I don’t care whether or not he uses him.
The point is, he’s talking to people who got p’saks from their rabbis not to use Chabad mikvahs. What would you like us to do, posken like CR User: Milhouse instead of our rabbis?
I can’t speak to whether or not “all shittahs” are against Chabad Mikvahs. But, his assertion that nobody says they’re posul just isn’t true.
warning for Litvaks: skip this post).
There is a section of the Zemiros we say Leil Shabbos. It says “u’miyut avonos.”. Why would we ask Hashem for only a few aveiros instead of none? One answer is that it is technically assur to clap, dance and go to mikva on Shabbos. Sechita, whatever. But what kind of a Shabbos is it without clapping dancing and a hot mikva? It isn’t as geshmack. So we ask that the Aibishter forgive us these few.
Baltimore:
What kind of Shabbos is it without being able to drive to your favorite shul? What kind of Shabbos is it without being able to heat up a nice bacon double cheeseburger?
What’s the difference between your usage of oneg Shabbos to be matir all kinds of issurim and the Reform movement’s? They make literally all the same points as you as did the Christians.
NevilleChamberlain, name one genuine shita that holds bor al gabei bor is possul. There aren’t any. Any rabbi who “paskens” not to use such a mikveh is either an am hooretz or operating on sin’as chinom.
The one shita that opponents claim passels such a mikveh is the Divrei Chaim, which is ironic since they ignore him on every other topic, while Chabad regards him as a serious posek; but their characterization of his position is an outright lie. Bor al gabei bor is kosher and mehudar according to his shita just as it is according to every other shita.
Milhouse, in what manner do the opponents twist the Divrei Chaim’s shitta? Do all who do so, twist it intentionally?
Yes, Milhouse, everyone who ever disagrees with Chabad is either an am haaretz or operating on sinas chinam. I love it when you guys show your true colors on these forums and thwart your own propaganda efforts.
I couldn’t care less what mikvah your women use. But, nobody wants your Chabad shittahs enforced on us. None of us asked for them. Just let us live our lives and stop assuming everyone is a “hater” if they don’t baby you and tell you how great you are all the time for being a Lubavitcher.
By the way, it’s common sense that if something is done a certain way for thousands of years (eg. how mikvahs work) and then one group comes along in changes it, the absence of explicit approval of the new shittah implies rejection.
Big Mazal Tov in Baltimore as the Machzikei Torah and Taubs mikvaos are both newly refurbished and operating. Have a meaningful fast.
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