The article analyses the narratives of Jewish family purity (niddah) and ritual purity cleansing (mikvah) distributed online by observant women. The article shows the changes in the narratives from ancient to modern, while the practical side of the ritual mostly remained the same. Some of these narratives are promoted and distributed online and offline by the rabbinical authorities and some are translated and embodied by the women themselves. The author suggests that Jewish tradition should be perceived as a constant negotiation of the ritual process, which transits from local to global, using the Internet as its tool. In the past Jewish tradition could be traced to a specific place and community. Nowadays, Joshua Meyrowitz – a professor of communication at the Department of Communication at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, writes – we no longer live in localities. Instead in the digital era, people live in so-called ‘glocalities’. In these ‘glocalities’ he suggests, a ‘global matrix’ of interconnections overlays the local experience. In the following paper, the author investigates how the narratives about mikvah and niddah observance are shaped and distributed online among observant women.

“Mikvah Narratives in the Digital Era: from local to global”

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