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* Maharik 115 explains that the majority of rainwater is only fit if that area of the river was originally moving when the rainwater entered. This is accepted by the Shach 201:11. | * Maharik 115 explains that the majority of rainwater is only fit if that area of the river was originally moving when the rainwater entered. This is accepted by the Shach 201:11. | ||
* Rambam Mikvaot 9:11 explains that the majority of the rainwater makes the whole river unfit if it entered the river or spring anywhere besides the original pit of the spring. Shulchan Aruch 201:2 accepts the Rambam. The Kesef Mishna 9:11 and Bet Yosef 201:15 explain that the Rambam would validate a majority of rainwater that entering the river in any part that was originally moving just like if rainwater entered the original pit of the spring. Shaarei Mikvaot 201:7 writes that the Shulchan Aruch follows this opinion since he quoted the opinion of the Rambam. Divrei Yosef p. 34-35 agrees in interpreting Shulchan Aruch. See Divrei Chayim 201:8 who rejects this interpretation of the Rambam otherwise most rivers would be fit and the Rambam quotes Rav’s concerns of going to mikveh in a river. </ref> | * Rambam Mikvaot 9:11 explains that the majority of the rainwater makes the whole river unfit if it entered the river or spring anywhere besides the original pit of the spring. Shulchan Aruch 201:2 accepts the Rambam. The Kesef Mishna 9:11 and Bet Yosef 201:15 explain that the Rambam would validate a majority of rainwater that entering the river in any part that was originally moving just like if rainwater entered the original pit of the spring. Shaarei Mikvaot 201:7 writes that the Shulchan Aruch follows this opinion since he quoted the opinion of the Rambam. Divrei Yosef p. 34-35 agrees in interpreting Shulchan Aruch. See Divrei Chayim 201:8 who rejects this interpretation of the Rambam otherwise most rivers would be fit and the Rambam quotes Rav’s concerns of going to mikveh in a river. </ref> | ||
===Mayan with Minority Drawn or Rain Water=== | |||
# If a mayan or area that flows from a mayan has a majority of spring water and a minority of rainwater or drawn water, it is kosher as a mayan even while it is moving.<ref>Mishna (Mikvaot 1:7, 5:5), Rash (Mikvaot 5:5), Nedarim 40b, Rambam (Hilchot Mikvaot 9:6), Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 201:2</ref> Some say that it is only kosher as a mayan in the places where it naturally flowed as a spring. However, if the rainwater or drawn water widened the mayan or made it flow in new places, those places are only kosher as a mikveh.<ref>Shach 201:11 quotes Maharik and agrees. He supports Maharik from Rash and Rosh (Mikvaot 5:5). However, Rambam (as understood by Ran) makes no such distinction. Even within Rash and Rosh, Chazon Ish (Mikvaot Tinyana 1:4) argues that Rash is only strict about drawn water but is not strict about rainwater. Fundamentally, he writes that someone who is lenient unlike Shach has what to rely upon.</ref> | |||
===Spring Water Disconnected from the Spring=== | ===Spring Water Disconnected from the Spring=== | ||
