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# A mikveh whose water changed colors from the original look of the water even if it doesn’t look like wine or another liquid<ref>The [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8785&pgnum=111 Raavad Baalei Hanefesh p. 111] writes that the mikveh is invalid as long as the water changes colors from what its original appearance even if it doesn’t look like wine. Shach 201:66 agrees.</ref> is invalid. There is a dispute whether this invalidation is rabbinic or biblical.<ref>The Torat Kohanim Shemini 9:4 cited by Bet Yosef 201:30 learns from a pasuk that a colored mikveh is invalid. Chelkat Binyamin 201:391 cites a dispute between the Raavad and Ramban, Rashba, and Ritva whether it is a rabbinic or biblical invalidation respectively. Raavad and Rashba hold it is only rabbinic. Mishkenot Yakov 45 and Igrot Moshe 120:8 s.v. vayin hold it is biblical. Chazon Ish 5:12 holds it is rabbinic. Divrei Chayim YD 2:102 quotes Mabit and Tosfot Yom Tov who hold it is biblical. </ref> | # A mikveh whose water changed colors from the original look of the water even if it doesn’t look like wine or another liquid<ref>The [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8785&pgnum=111 Raavad Baalei Hanefesh p. 111] writes that the mikveh is invalid as long as the water changes colors from what its original appearance even if it doesn’t look like wine. Shach 201:66 agrees.</ref> is invalid. There is a dispute whether this invalidation is rabbinic or biblical.<ref>The Torat Kohanim Shemini 9:4 cited by Bet Yosef 201:30 learns from a pasuk that a colored mikveh is invalid. Chelkat Binyamin 201:391 cites a dispute between the Raavad and Ramban, Rashba, and Ritva whether it is a rabbinic or biblical invalidation respectively. Raavad (Shaar Hamayim 2) and Rashba hold it is only rabbinic. Mishkenot Yakov 45 and Igrot Moshe 120:8 s.v. vayin hold it is biblical. Chazon Ish 5:12 holds it is rabbinic. Divrei Chayim YD 2:102 quotes Mabit and Tosfot Yom Tov who hold it is biblical. </ref> | ||
# A colored mikveh is invalid even if the color changes after it has 40 seah.<ref>The Mishna Mikvaot 7:3 establishes that if the mikveh is 40 seah and its color changed it is invalid. [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8785&pgnum=111 Raavad Baalei Hanefesh p. 111] clarifies this point. Shulchan Aruch 201:25 agrees.</ref> | # A colored mikveh is invalid even if the color changes after it has 40 seah.<ref>The Mishna Mikvaot 7:3 establishes that if the mikveh is 40 seah and its color changed it is invalid. [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8785&pgnum=111 Raavad Baalei Hanefesh p. 111] clarifies this point. Shulchan Aruch 201:25 agrees.</ref> | ||
# A colored mikveh can be fixed by having it connected to a spring.<ref>Rashba Shaar Hamayim 11 cited by Bet Yosef 201:28, Shulchan Aruch YD 201:28</ref> | # A colored mikveh can be fixed by having it connected to a spring.<ref>Rashba Shaar Hamayim 11 cited by Bet Yosef 201:28, Shulchan Aruch YD 201:28</ref> | ||
