The Goal: Operation Snow
For several hours, they fill sacks – which are not halachically considered a vessel – with clean snow to obtain the amount they need to open a mikveh Sack after sack, they work tirelessly against the clock
before the snow melts – on behalf of the exalted mitzvah of family purity.
The Destination: A new mikveh in Elyashiv, in the Sharon region
According to halachah, if there is no rainwater snow can be used to fill the mikveh reservoir When it comes to Taharat Ha'Mishpacha, there is not waiting for next winter and for the sake of the purity of Am Yisrael A few days before the last of the snow on the Hermon melts they undertake the complex operation of gathering the snow After they load the palettes of snow onto a refrigerated truck they set out quickly for Elyashiv.
Using a crane that is waiting for them the sacks of frozen snow are unloaded from the truck and poured onto the roof of the mikveh.
Within a few hours, the snow melts and the water fills the reservoirs In the merit of the Taharat Ha'Mishpacha within a short time, it will be possible to immerse in this mikveh
