Tractate Mikvaot

Mishnah Mikvaot, the fifty-seventh tractate of Seder Taharot, governs the conditions for a valid ritual bath used for purification. Spread across 10 chapters and 71 mishnayot, it has no Gemara in the Babylonian Talmud.

Start: Mikvaot 1:1

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Mikvaot – Chapter 1

The grades of water fitness for a mikveh.

Mikvaot – Chapter 2

The minimum volume required for a mikveh.

Mikvaot – Chapter 3

The addition of drawn water to a mikveh.

Mikvaot – Chapter 4

Pipes and channels connecting water sources.

Mikvaot – Chapter 5

The types of natural water sources valid for a mikveh.

Mikvaot – Chapter 6

Mikvaot joined together, and the union of several bodies of water.

Mikvaot – Chapter 7

Snow and ice used to form a mikveh.

Mikvaot – Chapter 8

Immersion procedures, and intervening substances (chatzitza).

Mikvaot – Chapter 9

The items that constitute an interposition during immersion.

Mikvaot – Chapter 10

The tractate's closing rules on the immersion of vessels and people.