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How long do the dishes need to be in the mikvah?

  

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Rabbi Shlomo Chein: Welcome. I'll be with you in a moment...what's on your mind?

Noah: I'm toyveling [Editor's note: immersing] my dishes and need help. when putting them in water, how long do they have to be out of my hands?

Rabbi Shlomo Chein: just enough time for water to reach where your hands were - which is usually about a second or less

Noah: ok, thanks...

Noah: and depth of water?

Rabbi Shlomo Chein: as long as the water can cover the entire dish at once it doesn't matter how deep the water is in the part of the Mikvah you Toivel [Ed. note: providing that the Mikvah in general has the required amount of water]

Noah: thanks so much i appreciate your help!

Rabbi Shlomo Chein: pleasure

Noah: take care

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Mikvah
A ritual bath where one immerses to become spiritually pure. After her menstrual cycle, a woman must immerse in the Mikvah before resuming marital relations.
Noah
Tenth generation from Adam. Of all humankind, only he and his family survived the Flood which destroyed all civilization in the year 2106 BCE.