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The Promised Land

CHAPTER V
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Of course I never go on the poll: I am not robust enough.

My spankings I take at home.
Another centre of interest is the _mikweh_, the name of which it is indelicate to mention in the hearing of men.

It is a large pool of standing water, its depth graded by means of a flight of steps.

Every married woman must perform here certain ceremonious ablutions at regular intervals.

Cleanliness is as strictly enjoined as godliness, and the manner of attaining it is carefully prescribed.


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