Keilim Mikveh
Consider Donating
The Keilim Mikveh is provided to the community as a free service, at a considerable cost to us. Donations are welcomed and appreciated.
Your Responsibilities
By availing yourself of this service, you are accepting full responsibility for yourself, your children and any items you bring with you… In addition, you are obligating yourself to treat these premises with respect and proper consideration.
Please abide by the following rules
- Please do not park in the private driveway… You may park on the street or in the parking lot next door (during non school hours only).
- Stickers and labels from dishes must be placed into the provided garbage cans and NOT on the walls.
- The garbage cans are meant for small objects only. Please take all cardboard, boxes, and large pieces of bubble wrap home with you.
- The Mikveh will not be responsible for any items left behind. They will be left at the side of the room for pickup… Unfortunately, items left behind tend to disappear quickly before they can be retrieved.
- Children must be supervised at all times.
- No men or boys are to be on the Mikveh premises past sunset. This is a violation of the privacy of our community’s women.
Before toveling an item, one must ensure that it is free from dirt, rust, adhesives and removable company stickers.
The blessing is recited before immersing the first item. When toveling a single item, the blessing is “Al Tevilat Keili”.
Please check the reference guide in order to determine which items required a blessing and which do not.
During the immersion, care must be taken that water completely reaches all sides of the item at once and that no air is trapped inside.
Reference Guide
- Metal: cutlery, knives,pots, pot lids, pans, pizza cutters, peelers, corn on the cob holders, ladles, spatulas, mixing utensils graters used with cooked products
- Glass and Crystal: Dishes, trays, Serving bowls, Cutting boards, Pitchers, Drinking glasses, Microwave trays if food will be placed directly on top
- Salt shakers
- Pyrex baking dishes
- Crock pot: only a metal or glass insert
- BBQ grill: only the grill itself
- Toaster oven: removable racks & trays
- Food Processor used for cooked products: metal blades and parts
*It is preferable to Tovel together with a vessel that requires a Bracha.
- Glazed porcelain, ceramic or china
- Enameled Iron
- Food processor or grater used for raw product only
- Metal or glass containers for storage
- Glass thermoses and bottles
- Plastic, nylon, melamine, rubber
- Disposable aluminum pans (2nd usage)
- Electrical equipment: Toaster, popcorn maker, hot water urn
- Cookie cutters
- Egg pot
- Coffee grinder
- Metal flour sifter
- Earthenware, unglazed pottery
- Stone
- Wood
- Leather
- Pocket knife or scissors (unless permanently used with food)
- Netilat Yadayim cup
- Can openers, corkscrews
- Knife sharpener
- Anything manufactured and owned by a Jew
