[Avodah] New [Chabad] Ritual Bath Opens in Northern Tel Aviv

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:07:04PM EDT, I wrote:
: IOW, I do not know of an L reason (other than comfort and pride in one's
: rebbe) to actually prefer a BAGB...

I was since pointed to R SDB Levin's seifer on miqvah, which has an
online copy at <http://chabadlibrary.org/books/chasidim/mkvh>. In
particular, see ch. 5.

There is a haqpadah in the L sources for "miqvah a"g miqvah", although
I fail to see in that chapter what the perceived value is. R' Jachter,
in the article RGS cited, gives 3 acheivments:

1- There is no way for the caretaker to forget to open the hole between
the boros -- it's always open.

2- There is also no way for the water to be too low to reach the hole.

3- It satisfies the Raavad's requirement of rov / more than 20 se'ah of
the rainwater remianing in the bor hashaqah. (Not sure what he means if
the bor hashaqah holds 50 se'ah; does the Raavad still require >20 se'ah,
or >25?)

Interestingly, I saw #3 as a problem, a lack of mixing of water compared
to neshiqa as done before then.

R' Jachter cites the Divrei Chaim's objection that the miqvah is pasul
because "kataferes eino chibbur (Taharos 8:9) -- water running along
a slope doesn't count because (the DC holds) connections are only
side-to-side. And he gives defenses. I'm just noting the difference
between the objection to BAGB as I heard it, and the objection that
really appears in the sources.

But a reminder -- no one pasls, and no one holds only BAGB is kosher.
(See IM YD I #111.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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