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Mikvah the Traditional

Traditional use of mikvah includes:

  • family purity/taharat hamispacha (monthly and after giving birth),
  • immersing cooking/dining vessels,
  • Before your wedding
  • for some before Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashana, Passover
  • for some Chasidic men before Shabbat every week
  • Conversion,
  • and becoming more common "returning" to Judaism - adults connecting with a Jewish heritage that was kept hidden from them

Books

  • Total Immersion: A mikvah Anthology edited by Rivkah Slonim - great book of women's stories and experiences with using the mikvah (Orthodox)
  • The Secret of Jewish Femininity By Tehilla Abramov - This book is unique in that it is written for women by a woman, with their practical needs in mind. The laws of family purity are interwoven with philosophical insights (Orthodox)
  • Waters of Eden by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan It has been called the secret of the Jewish survival - a mystical connection to the Garden of Eden. What is the Mikvah's fundamental connection to birth, marriage, conversion and death? How does a Mikvah purify? How can a proper understanding of Mikvah bring happiness, freshness and fulfillment to your life? "Waters of Eden" is a revealing book that explodes old myths and prejudices and offers insights never before available to the English reading public.

Links

  • http://mikvah.org/
  • The Mikvah Project is a touring exhibit of photographs and interviews documenting the resurgence of the Jewish rite of immersion in a ritual bath. The ritual of immersion has been observed continuously for over three thousand years. Mikvah immersion as a religious obligation has long been held as sacred that some have risked imprisonment or death to maintain the practice.

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Mikvah Non-Traditional

Non-traditional uses of mikvah includes healing rituals:

  • Affirmation of Jewish identity
  • Before conceiving a baby
  • During the month of Elul
  • Before Sukkot or Shavuot
  • Rosh Chodesh (the first day(s)) of a Jewish month
  • Before becoming a Bar/Bat Mitzvah
  • Before Rabbinic Ordination
  • Before traveling to Israel
  • Birthday
  • Start of menopause
  • After loss, such as the death of a loved one
  • After Miscarriage
  • After Rape and/or other violation
  • After severe illness
  • During divorce & After receiving get/divorce decree
  • During recovery from an addiction
  • Yahrzeit
  • Loss of a relationship
  • Beginning new job or a journey
  • Anniversary of conversion
  • Infertility
  • During pregnancy
  • Before Shabbat

Books

Links

  • Ritualwell provides resources for creating innovative, contemporary Jewish rituals. Our hope is that this site will connect Jews to a living Judaism and empower us all to mark important times in our lives with ritual.

Unusual Mikvaot

  • Mayyim Hayyim: Living Waters Community Mikveh & Education Center is a place for the renewal of Jewish personal spirituality in Greater Boston. A place for learning, for transformation, for healing, and for marking life's many milestones, Mayyim Hayyim pours the ancient waters of mikveh - the ritual bath - into a beautiful 21st century vessel where all Jews are welcome.
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