What makes water purify from impurity (i.e. mikva)? What is the difference between water and anything else?The answer to why water purifies takes us back to the beginning of creation. When Adam sinned, the land was cursed and contaminated as it says ארורה האדמה בעבורך, Breishis 3:17. He was born in Germany and moved to the United States in 1824. From 1829 to 1850, he served as chazzan and accursed is the ground because of you.The ground was cursed but the water remained pure. As a result, it is water that purifies.

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