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

[Zev Sero]

On 18/10/2010 6:19 PM, Tal Moshe Zwecker wrote:
> I may be wrong but I was under the impression that:
>
> 1.It was the Baal HaTanya himself who designed the Bor Al Gabbei Bor
> design

Not so.  In his day rain-water mikvaos were unknown.  His mikveh design,
which was one of his proudest achievements, involved a perforated wooden
box built into a stream (or perhaps that could be lowered into the
stream with the woman inside -- I'm not entirely sure)


> 2.They actually believe that it is halachically preferrable since the
> side by side bor has the issue where if the water in the otzar falls
> below the line of the hashaka hole the hashaka ceases! whereas bor
> on bor there is no such fear at all

That is one reason.


> 3.Rav Shach and other poskim opposed it on the halachic grounds that
> the lower bor's hashakah hole gets clogged with dirt and blocked up,
> thus rendering the upper Bor non-kosher

This is physically impossible.


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