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# Some poskim hold that a mikveh that is incomplete and invalidated because 3 lug or more of drawn water was added can be fixed as follows: wine is added so that the entire mikveh changes the look of wine, then more water is added until its original color returns. However, many poskim hold that this isn’t solution doesn’t work.<ref>Chelkat Binyamin 201:432 cites a dispute between the Chazon Ish Mikvaot 5:13 and the Maharsham 3:11 whether it is possible to fix a mikveh by changing its color and then returning its color. The Maharsham held that it is possible to fix since once it turns into colored water the invalidation of drawn water doesn’t count and when its color returns it is a kosher mikveh. Bet Shlomo 1:171, Bet Yitzchak 2:41, and others agreed. However, the Chazon Ish held that the only time drawn water doesn’t invalidate a colored mikveh is if it colored the mikveh prior to the drawn water entering. However, once a mikveh is invalid because of drawn water it remains invalid.</ref> Even the lenient opinion can be relied upon if the original invalidation was only rabbinic and not biblical.<ref>Chelkat Binyamin 201:432 writes that one can only use the solution of the Maharsham if the invalidation was rabbinic but if it is biblical it doesn’t work since the entire concept of having the waters change colors is only rabbinic to begin with according to many poskim.</ref> | # Some poskim hold that a mikveh that is incomplete and invalidated because 3 lug or more of drawn water was added can be fixed as follows: wine is added so that the entire mikveh changes the look of wine, then more water is added until its original color returns. However, many poskim hold that this isn’t solution doesn’t work.<ref>Chelkat Binyamin 201:432 cites a dispute between the Chazon Ish Mikvaot 5:13 and the Maharsham 3:11 whether it is possible to fix a mikveh by changing its color and then returning its color. The Maharsham held that it is possible to fix since once it turns into colored water the invalidation of drawn water doesn’t count and when its color returns it is a kosher mikveh. Bet Shlomo 1:171, Bet Yitzchak 2:41, and others agreed. However, the Chazon Ish held that the only time drawn water doesn’t invalidate a colored mikveh is if it colored the mikveh prior to the drawn water entering. However, once a mikveh is invalid because of drawn water it remains invalid.</ref> Even the lenient opinion can be relied upon if the original invalidation was only rabbinic and not biblical.<ref>Chelkat Binyamin 201:432 writes that one can only use the solution of the Maharsham if the invalidation was rabbinic but if it is biblical it doesn’t work since the entire concept of having the waters change colors is only rabbinic to begin with according to many poskim.</ref> | ||
# It is permitted to add chlorine powder to a complete mikveh if it doesn’t change its color.<ref>Mesorat Moshe v. 2 p. 229</ref> | # It is permitted to add chlorine powder to a complete mikveh if it doesn’t change its color.<ref>Mesorat Moshe v. 2 p. 229</ref> | ||
=== A colored mayan === | |||
# Many rishonim hold that a mayan cannot be invalidated with a change in color.<ref>Raavad (Shaar Hamayim 2:19), Rashba (Shaar Hamayim 11), Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 201:28. Chazon Ish (Mikvaot Tinyana 5:12) writes that Raavad is only lenient because he thinks that a change in color is only a pasul derabbanan.</ref> However, others hold it is invalidated by a change in color.<ref>Tosfot Macot 4a s.v. amar, Rid 15 (cited by Biyurim Lrashba fnt. 244)</ref> | |||
==Creation of a Mikveh through Something Susceptible to Tumah== | ==Creation of a Mikveh through Something Susceptible to Tumah== | ||
