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Secondary options for a Mikvah

-Going to the Mikvah is one of the most important actions needed to remain pure.
-Every person should try to go every day, especially people living outside the land of Yisroel.
-Those people that find it impossible to go every day, should at least go on Erev Shabot.
-Erev Rosh Hashanah and Erev Yom Kippur are almost mandatary, who wants to enter judgment in an impure state.
-If a person experienced a nocturnal emission (Mikre Liyla), he must do everything in his power to go to the Mikvah as soon as possible.
-Most Mikvos open very early in the morning, some as early as 3:00 AM.
-Almost all Mikvos are clean and have showers.
-One should not worry about walking around with out clothes, for you can wrap a towel around your self until the last second. One can also dip in a river or lake.
-If a person tries as hard as he can and yet he finds it absolutely impossible to go to a mikvah, then he should use one of these secondary methods of purifying himself. Going to a Mikvah is a lot more powerful then these methods, however these methods are much better then nothing at all.

Warning these methods will not work for a women, she is a Niddah until she goes to a proper Mikvah.

-The first method involves rinsing the body in Nine Kavim of water.
-The nine kavim equal around 12.5 litters of water.
-The water should be poured on the person from his head down running on his entire body.
- Water should preferably be poured by a second person and in three different batches.

-The second method involves the rinsing of the hands forty times.
-For preceding meditations and prayers see end of Shari Kedusha published by Eshkol.
-One takes a large cup and pours water totally covering his hand up to his wrists. as he pours the water he should meditate on the following letters.
- During the first 20 rinses one switches between right and left hands. During the last 20 one does ten rinses on right hand then ten on the left hand.

	Left hand	Right hand
	Rinse 2 Meditate on	Rinse 1 Meditate on
	Rinse 4 Meditate on	Rinse 3 Meditate on
	Rinse 6 Meditate on	Rinse 5 Meditate on
	Rinse 8 Meditate on	Rinse 7 Meditate on
	Rinse 10 Meditate on	Rinse 9 Meditate on
	Rinse 12 Meditate on	Rinse 11 Meditate on
	Rinse 14 Meditate on	Rinse 13 Meditate on
	Rinse 16 Meditate on	Rinse 15 Meditate on
	Rinse 18 Meditate on	Rinse 17 Meditate on
	Rinse 20 Meditate on	Rinse 19 Meditate on
	Now ten on right hand then ten on left hand
	Rinse 31 Meditate on	Rinse 21 Meditate on
	Rinse 32 Meditate on	Rinse 22 Meditate on
	Rinse 33 Meditate on	Rinse 23 Meditate on
	Rinse 34 Meditate on	Rinse 24 Meditate on
	Rinse 35 Meditate on	Rinse 25 Meditate on
	Rinse 36 Meditate on	Rinse 26 Meditate on
	Rinse 37 Meditate on	Rinse 27 Meditate on
	Rinse 38 Meditate on	Rinse 28 Meditate on
	Rinse 39 Meditate on	Rinse 29 Meditate on
	Rinse 40 Meditate on	Rinse 30 Meditate on