Mayyim Hayyim is a mikveh - a ritual bath - and much more. We hope you'll find our website to be full of fascinating information, insights, and surprises. We look forward to hearing from you.
Welcome to Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and the Paula Brody & Family Education Center in Newton, MA. Mayyim Hayyim is a threshold into Jewish life—a place where the spiritually diverse needs of 21st century Jews are met by reclaiming the ancient tradition of immersing in the mikveh.
The blog is updated twice a week with posts by local and national scholars, educators and mikveh goers interested in exploring a new angle on a traditional ritual. To receive an email each time a new one is published, enter your email address in the "Subscribe" section in the top right-hand column of our blog and click "Sign Me Up."
It happened.
With balloons, family, pictures, and laughter.
Our ten thousandth immersion.
Ten thousand.
Just the sound of it is impressive. I’ll say it again: ten thousand.
One-by-one we counted. Reaching such a milestone, we can’t help but reflect. What does it mean for a mikveh to have touched so many lives? How is the landscape of Jewish Boston different because of the widespread support of a dream?
In some ways, the enormity of 10,000 is hard to comprehend, read more
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