Endnote 3 – Discovering What Jewish Miqva’ot Can Tell Us About Christian Baptism

Maimonides observed that the water of a spring “imparts cleanness however little its quantity.” The Code of Maimonides, Book Ten, The Book of Cleanness, transl., Herbert Danby (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954), p. 526; Yad, Miqva’ot 9:8.