{"id":34,"date":"2019-06-20T19:28:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T18:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/?p=34"},"modified":"2019-06-26T08:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T07:12:44","slug":"the-new-mikvah-in-bardejov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/2019\/06\/20\/the-new-mikvah-in-bardejov\/","title":{"rendered":"The “New” Mikvah in Bardejov"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the Shoah, and with communist rule well established (though perhaps not totally accidentally three years after Stalin’s death), in the year 1956, the Jews in Bardejov decided to build a new Mikvah<\/cite> right next to the old one.<\/p>\n

The old Mikvah was too big for the few survivors who had returned. So, a new building was erected, with a rain water collector on the roof, an oven, a bath tub for cleaning before getting into the pool and all the trimmings.<\/p>\n

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The basin in the back is for mixing some “regular” water with the “living water”, i.e. the rain water collected on the roof.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The steps leading into the basin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The water in the Mikveh should have a bearable temperature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Clean yourself properly before entering the Mikveh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is one basin for mixing the live water<\/em> (the rain water) with regular pipe water and one basin with steps leading down. The pool is approximately 160 cm deep. Taking the dip properly would not be a simple task for average people to-day, but at the time this depth apparently seemed adequate. \"\" \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the Shoah, and with communist rule well established (though perhaps not totally accidentally three years after Stalin’s death), in the year 1956, the Jews in Bardejov decided to build a new Mikvah right next to the old one. The old Mikvah was too big for the few survivors who had returned. So, a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}