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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jewish people have a ritual bath ceremony?

Is it anything like ritual of baptism and how some Christian denominations immerse themselves in water?

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No, it's not really like a baptism. In fact, Orthodox Jews use the mikvah year-round for all sorts of ritual cleansing. Women go once a month following their period to be ritually cleansed. And following childbirth as well. Men and women go before their wedding. There are a lot of uses for the mikvah in addition to conversion.

A closer comparison to baptism (sort of) within a Jewish context would be brit milah (circumcision) for boys or a simchat bat (celebration of a daughter/girl's naming ceremony) for girls. Both of these rituals bring the baby into the Jewish peoplehood and the covenant with God.[/quote]

I'm a Christian who's seen a lot of baptisms and I've also seen a mikvah for conversion. The mikvah for conversion looks A LOT like baptism to me. Except that the person is naked. I've never seen a naked baptism![/quote]

But it doesn’t have the same theological meaning as a baptism. Please stop trying to make Judaism into just a version of Christianity. Let us have our own rituals that exist on their own.[/quote]

Oh, stop. PP is degenerating baptism as well. [/quote]

Huh? Do you mean “denigrating”? I don’t see any evidence that they’re denigrating baptisms.[/quote]

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