MIT Grad Builds Mikvah Calculator

It has only taken 7 years or 3,000 years, depending how you look at it.

MIT computer science grads have finally compiled and built a system pertaining to one of the most complicated areas of Jewish law.

“We’ve been working on developing this technology for seven years,” founder Rivkah Spangenthal Bloom, MIT class of 2003 says. “Our new system will allow couples to keep Mikvah with the greatest amount of accuracy since the giving of the Torah.”

Known by its users as ‘the pink and purple mikvah app,’ both the website and smartphone application are straightforward, accessible, and simple to maneuver. Since its release in 2009, MikvahCalendar.com has functioned as a modern, user-friendly resource for couples endeavoring to follow the age-old Jewish laws of family purity.

Since the website’s inception, the website’s MIT-educated developers website have continually pushed themselves to utilize principles of both design and function to make MikvahCalendar.com ever more user-friendly and technologically advanced. In its most recent update, MikvahCalendar.com utilizes unprecedented newly-developed technology to solve for a complicated matter that even experienced rabbis grapple with, that of kavuah, regular patterns.

Let’s explain:

To fully observe the laws of Mikvah, it is necessary to detect regular patterns in the menstrual cycle and then use that information to calculate one’s next expected period. This is a confusing process when considering the possibility of simultaneous patterns, dormant patterns, active patterns, and uprooted patterns. Making matters even more complicated, life events such as pregnancy, birth, and nursing affect the calculations and need to be taken into consideration.

Until today, women have needed to struggle with these complicated calculations on their own.

With the MivkvahCalendar.com update, that will no longer be necessary.

For the first time ever, MivkahCalendar.com has created a system which will automatically do the work for you. The website’s developers have worked with Rabbonim from all sectors of the Jewish world to codify these laws into a programming framework.

Rabbi Fischel Jacobs, the site’s Rabbinic responder as well as author of Chochmat HaTaharah and Family Purity, raves about the new update, “Expanding to include these extremely complex areas of Jewish law further establishes MikvahCalendar.com as one of our generation’s greatest Torah innovations.”

MikvahCalendar.com allows computer and smart-phone users the ability to access their calendars on the go. The website is now available in English, Hebrew, French, and Spanish and caters to nuances of Sephardic, Ashkanazic, Chabad, and Modern Orthodox customs.

Still confused? The team at MikvahCalendar.com team is there to help.

Go ahead, try it. click on MikvahCalendar.com, and play around.

This website will take care of the rest.