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# Hashaka to ice according to some poskim is valid.<ref>The Chelkat Binyamin Biurim 201:30 s.v. ad p. 169 quotes the Gidulei Tahara responsa 12 who writes that if a mikveh has a lot of ice and is unfit for tevilah can’t be used for hashaka according to the Raah who says that you can’t add sheuvim to a mikveh which is unfit for dipping since it is shallow. Chelkat Binyamin questions this since the ice is going to melt on its own and it isn’t similar to a shallow mikveh which is unfit as it is. Rabbi Simon said that he heard that Rav Moshe Feinstein allowed the swimming pool of Luban, Russia as a mikveh since the drawn tap water had hashaka to ice underneath the pool. </ref> | # Hashaka to ice according to some poskim is valid.<ref>The Chelkat Binyamin Biurim 201:30 s.v. ad p. 169 quotes the Gidulei Tahara responsa 12 who writes that if a mikveh has a lot of ice and is unfit for tevilah can’t be used for hashaka according to the Raah who says that you can’t add sheuvim to a mikveh which is unfit for dipping since it is shallow. Chelkat Binyamin questions this since the ice is going to melt on its own and it isn’t similar to a shallow mikveh which is unfit as it is. Rabbi Simon said that he heard that Rav Moshe Feinstein allowed the swimming pool of Luban, Russia as a mikveh since the drawn tap water had hashaka to ice underneath the pool. </ref> | ||
===Joining Mikveh or Using Hashaka with Katafras=== | ===Joining Mikveh or Using Hashaka with Katafras=== | ||
#Water running down a slope is katafras and is considered not connected for a mikvah. Therefore, even if there are 40 seah of rainwater on the slope that water doesn't joint together to be considered a kosher mikvah.<ref>Rash and Rosh (Mikvaot 5:6)</ref> | |||
# Some rishonim define katafras as moving water.<ref>Rivash 292 cited by Bet Yosef 201:62 defines katafras as moving water, zochlin. Or Zaruah (1:336) quoting Rabbenu Simcha and Tosfot Rid (Gittin 16b) agree that katafras is synonymous with zochlin. Divrei Chaim 2:97 argues. Maharsham (2:59 and 3:100), and Igrot Moshe 3:65 reject the Divrei Chaim.</ref> | # Some rishonim define katafras as moving water.<ref>Rivash 292 cited by Bet Yosef 201:62 defines katafras as moving water, zochlin. Or Zaruah (1:336) quoting Rabbenu Simcha and Tosfot Rid (Gittin 16b) agree that katafras is synonymous with zochlin. Divrei Chaim 2:97 argues. Maharsham (2:59 and 3:100), and Igrot Moshe 3:65 reject the Divrei Chaim.</ref> | ||
# A river isn’t considered katafras.<ref>The Ravyah (cited by Mordechai Shevuot 746) asks why it is possible to dip in a river if it is considered katafras. | # A river isn’t considered katafras.<ref>The Ravyah (cited by Mordechai Shevuot 746) asks why it is possible to dip in a river if it is considered katafras. | ||
