{"id":2580,"date":"2015-12-29T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2016-01-06T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T15:23:22","slug":"%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%92-date-17-teves-5776-122915-gittin-daf-16-eliezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=2580","title":{"rendered":"\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d2 Date: 17 Teves, 5776 (12\/29\/15) \u2013 Gittin Daf 16 {Eliezer}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">REPLICATED RECEPTACLES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[16a middle] <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gemarah<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: A <em>Mikvah<\/em> needs to have 40 se\u2019ah (~198 gallons) from Divine NATURALLY flowing waters (ie: rainwater or rivers) [without being held in artificial containers].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>D-E-ep Thoughts <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(based on Mikvah.org)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: One of the main purposes of immersion is becoming ONE with nature, through the nullification of the self. The word \u201cimmersion\u201d \u05d8\u05d1\u05d9\u05dc\u05d4 even has the same letters as \u05d4\u05d1\u05d9\u05d8\u05dc \u201cnullification of self.\u201d We must not view ourselves as being artificially \u2018self contained.\u2019 Just as a helpless baby forming in a watery womb relies on its mother for sustenance and survival, so too do we float around in these waters and constantly rely on Hashem for everything we have and do.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REPLICATED RECEPTACLES [16a middle] Gemarah: A Mikvah needs to have 40 se\u2019ah (~198 gallons) from Divine NATURALLY flowing waters (ie: rainwater or rivers) [without being held in artificial containers]. D-E-ep Thoughts (based on Mikvah.org): One of the main purposes of immersion is becoming ONE with nature, through the nullification of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-gittin","category-l4l-by-eliezer","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}