[Avodah] mikva shitos

[Zev Sero]

Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
> 
> i saw  this  remark online--
>> BTW, no Mikvah is today built the way it was in the Alte Heim, [...]

> ---could  someone  kindly delineate these various  shitos  for me?  is 
> he  implying  mikvaos arre better, worse or just different than in the 
> alte heim?

Different.  In Europe until the 19th century there was almost no such
thing as a rain-water mikveh.  Everyone knew that one can also make a
mikveh from mei geshomim, but nobody did so.  When people started building
such mikvaos in the 19th century, all sorts of machlokes began over the
best way to do so, since in hilchos mikvaos the practise is to be yotze
as many shitos as possible.  


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