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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 ([https://beta.hebrewbooks.org/reader/reader.aspx?sfid=14483#p=110&fitMode=fitwidth&hlts=&ocr= 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 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 ([https://beta.hebrewbooks.org/reader/reader.aspx?sfid=14483#p=110&fitMode=fitwidth&hlts=&ocr= 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> | ||
=== What Types of Color Changes Invalidate a Mikveh? === | === What Types of Color Changes Invalidate a Mikveh? === | ||
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# If part of the mikveh changed colors that area doesn’t count towards the mikveh, but if there’s 40 seah that is unchanged it is a kosher mikveh, if one dips in the area that didn’t change colors.<ref>Rambam Mikvaot 7:9, Shulchan Aruch 201:26</ref> | # If part of the mikveh changed colors that area doesn’t count towards the mikveh, but if there’s 40 seah that is unchanged it is a kosher mikveh, if one dips in the area that didn’t change colors.<ref>Rambam Mikvaot 7:9, Shulchan Aruch 201:26</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> | ||
# If water changed colors because of smoke from being heated up is invalid according to some poskim.<ref>Mishkenot Yakov 44 invalidates such water based on Gemara Sotah 15b. However, Pitchei Teshuva 201:19 disagrees and holds it is like water which changed colors by itself. </ref> | |||
=== Fixing a Colored Mikveh === | |||
# 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 more water added to it to change its color back to regular water. If the mikveh has 40 seah the water added can even be drawn water.<ref>Mishna Mikvaot 7:3 states that a mikveh that has 40 seah and its water changed colors is invalid unless water is added and that water can even be drawn. The [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8785&pgnum=111 Raavad Baalei Hanefesh p. 111], Rambam Mikvaot 7:9, Tur and Shulchan Aruch YD 201:25 agree.</ref> | |||
=== A Colored Mayan === | === A Colored Mayan === | ||
