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hadasa

Mon, Sep 21 2009, 2:02 pm

I bought a new electric thermos before RH, and went to toivel it immediately, so it would dry out before Yom Tov.
My six-year-old noticed it, and we had the following conversation:

dd: Don't you have to give it to Tatty to toivel?
me: No, I toiveled it already.
dd: (incredulously) You?! How did you get in?
me: Well, I asked the guard to open the door to the Mikveh, and I went in, and toiveled it.
dd: Wow, is this the first time you ever saw the Mikveh?
me: Well, umm, not quite...

grin

Thu, Oct 08 2009, 10:02 am

yeah, I've had this. Fast forward about 10 years - my workman was telling us how he was working on the women's mikva and it's really nice now. I got all embarrassed and my teens said - "what, you thought we didn't know?"

Tue, Nov 03 2009, 7:59 am

My son was reading a hilchos Shabbos sefer in English, and was laughing to himself, so I asked him what was so funny. He says " it says here that it is permitted to use nailpolish remover on Yom Tov before using the Mikvah. Why would a man need nail polish remover??"

I was stumped, so I told him to ask his father Very Happy