Do you go to the mikvah erev Yom Kippur?

ShiraMiri ↓

Sun, Oct 01 2006, 8:38 am

I recently learned that some women have the minhag to go to the mikvah erev Yom Kippur. I am just curious if any women on this board do.

brooklyn

Sun, Oct 01 2006, 8:46 am

I know that many men do, I didn't women are supposed to.

Ruchel

Sun, Oct 01 2006, 9:22 am

I don't, but sometimes my husband goes (or a few days before).

shanie5 ↓

Sun, Oct 01 2006, 12:09 pm

I go every erev yom kippur, but voted 'no' cuz I only go to "direct traffic" and collect the money.

el2cg

Sun, Oct 01 2006, 12:58 pm

interesting- I do go. I always thought that this was a time everyone went! I guess its a chasidishe minhug.

shalhevet ↓

Mon, Oct 02 2006, 10:49 am

el2cg wrote:

interesting- I do go. I always thought that this was a time everyone went! I guess its a chasidishe minhug.

I go and we're not Chasidishe.

Mommy3.5

Mon, Oct 02 2006, 6:08 pm

what if you are niddah on erev YK???

Never heard of this minhag till I started reading Imamother.com....

↑ ShiraMiri

Mon, Oct 02 2006, 6:11 pm

Mommy3.5 wrote:

what if you are niddah on erev YK???

Never heard of this minhag till I started reading Imamother.com....

Ditto. I do wonder, what happens when you are in the "heavy flow" days when erev YK falls? Do you still go?

Mama Bear ↓

Mon, Oct 02 2006, 7:32 pm

I went. Chasidishe ladies go.
If youre bleeding from aperiod, post partum, medical procedure etc. you dont go. if youre not bleeding anyomre but still niddah you can go.
this year I helped a 70-something widow dip - she was too scared she would slip. I waited for her outside the mikvah and helped her back into her wraparound sheet. I felt really good Smile

↑ shanie5 ↓

Mon, Oct 02 2006, 8:23 pm

mikvah on erev yom kippur is totally different than the "normal" mikvah time. I had one lady come for an appt on sunday nite, and come back monday morn for an erev yom kippur 'dunk'. another came erev yom kippur, and returned tonite for her "regular" visit.
the prep is different for erev yom kippur. just a shower and dunk-no checking, bath, or brocha- or attendant needed either.

↑ Mama Bear

Mon, Oct 02 2006, 8:58 pm

shanie when I once had to go the night before yom kippur I didnt go back again for an erev YK dip. I was yotzei from my reg. dip.

↑ shanie5

Tue, Oct 03 2006, 7:57 pm

I asked the shailoh for her, and the rov told me one has nothing to do w/ the other- different minhagim I guess.

jewgal84

Tue, Oct 03 2006, 8:08 pm

I go.

It's the most amazing, purifying, inspiring and uplifiting feeling.

miriamnechama

Tue, Aug 14 2007, 11:34 pm

I go and by us we do have the attendants there. one is at the desk taking the money and another is inside moving things along. they only open for 3 hours and there are times that it's gets too busy that an attendant is needed to move things along. also they still make sure that no women see each other, it's not so necessary but nice.

I suppose they are also around for safety reasons also.

amother ↓

Wed, Aug 15 2007, 8:25 am

Mama Bear wrote:

shanie when I once had to go the night before yom kippur I didnt go back again for an erev YK dip. I was yotzei from my reg. dip.

isn't the idea to not have relations after? to be purified for yk?

Henya ↓

Wed, Aug 15 2007, 8:35 am

chocolate moose wrote:

it's not minhag Lub to go.

Really? I was always under the impression that it was a Lubavitcher minhag.

↑ chocolate moose ↓

Wed, Aug 15 2007, 9:45 am

Henya wrote:

chocolate moose wrote:

it's not minhag Lub to go.

Really? I was always under the impression that it was a Lubavitcher minhag.

No, it’s not minhag Lub – not for the ladies, anyway. Our (ladies) mikvah is open, but only limited hours because they don’t get too much of a crowd.

↑ Henya

Thu, Aug 16 2007, 10:57 am

chocolate moose wrote:

Henya wrote:

chocolate moose wrote:

it's not minhag Lub to go.

Really? I was always under the impression that it was a Lubavitcher minhag.

No, it’s not minhag Lub – not for the ladies, anyway. Our (ladies) mikvah is open, but only limited hours because they don’t get too much of a crowd.

I hate to disappoint you, but it is minhag Lubavitch. The source for it is in tha Alter Rebbe's Shulchan Oruch.

↑ chocolate moose ↓

Thu, Aug 16 2007, 11:17 am

But that's not how we do it.

I hate to disappoint you, but not everything listed in Sefer HaMinhagim or the A.R. Shlulchan Aruch is poskened or done the way it’s written.