Hi,
We moved couple of blocks to a new house and invited Atzva family to visit our new home. We invited also my family but Guri and Fatma preferred to spend the weekend in Oktoberfest in Munich…. can you imagine? 
. Ima and Aba jumped over, but they were around here for Open Houses event in Tel-Aviv anyway…
Because part of her family is religious, we had to use Kosher dishes. We bought brand new dishes and bowls (well Atzva mother bought it), but you still have to wash it in a Mikveh, which is a pool of fresh clean water. In a process called Tevilat Kelim (“‘immersion of vessels”).
When I first heard of it -it made completely sense. You bought new dishes, you better wash it before you use it, don’t you? Of course now it is easily and fast, just go to the kitchen and open the facet. But back in the days, it was not so easy to find clean fresh water you can wash clean your dishes.
I came to think about it as one of the smart things Judaism ask you to do and end up with logic behind it. But seems it isn’t one of those things. You only have to, if the utensils comes form a Goy (non-Jewish person). Just another way to set Jewish apart from no Jewish 
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When I came back, Atzva asked how was it. “OK”, I said. “I also Baptized Mindal” that the same word in Hebrew for Tevila …. She didn’t like my joke 
Take Care
Gad
The dishes and and bowls to be go through Tevilat Kelim
The small building of the Mikveh below the Synagogue.
The Mikveh on the left and the small pools for the immersion on the right.
Opening times, and the pray you should say when doing the immersion.
The Mikveh pool for the immersion
The water need to cover the vessel from all sides. That is why you need to pill off the stickers from the vessel. This is also why you need to leave the vessel for a second and catch it again.
I was not fast enough to catch it, and it ended in the bottom of the pool 