By Lisa Berman, Mikveh and Education Director On May 29, 2014 at Mayyim Hayyim’s tenth year celebration event, we honored our Director of Education, Lisa Berman, who has taught more than 20,000 visitors to our education center since our opening. Here are her remarks about her Jewish journey and her path to Mayyim Hayyim. […]
Continue ReadingThe following originally appeared on kveller.com – read the full text here. by Carrie Bornstein It’s been a year since you wrote “Since My Divorce, I’m Missing the Mikveh,” and you know what, Mayim? You and I have a lot in common. OK – so I’m not a movie star. But I have watched Beaches approximately 517 times. That’s […]
Continue Readingby Arlyn Miller This post is the third of a three-part series of poems inspired by our Gathering the Waters International Mikveh Conference in 2010. Begin again. This time in benevolence without violence or betrayal. This time without someone else’s story dragging you under, drowning you breathless with terror. This beginning begins with you. Take the love you […]
Continue Readingby Arlyn Miller This post is the second of a three-part series of poems inspired by our Gathering the Waters International Mikveh Conference in 2010. As if you didn’t have a body, were all thought and feeling. As if the clumsy feet, the aging hands, the blemished skin and unwieldy hair were not you. Most of the […]
Continue Readingby Sherri Goldman, Administrative and Finance Director “Membership at Mayyim Hayyim allows me to focus on myself. My membership allows me to immerse as many times as I want, focusing solely on my kavanah (direction of my heart); I have no concerns or thoughts about anything else.” “I feel completely supported by Mayyim Hayyim. My membership […]
Continue Readingby Arlyn Miller This post begins a three-part series of poems inspired by our Gathering the Waters International Mikveh Conference in 2010. Approach the water. Bring who you are and what you have lost. In its transparency the water holds every color. Like light – every color contained; though we cannot see this, for seeing […]
Continue Readingby Walton Clark, Office Assistant Time is the constant relative. 10 years, 7 stops on the green line, 3 snoozes of the alarm clock, 6 family members born; we measure the passing of time in so many ways. We know that it doesn’t change, that it doesn’t pass us by any differently from one day to the […]
Continue Readingby Leah Hart Tennen When life hands you lemons, call Carrie Bornstein. If a truer lesson is out there, I have yet to find it. In my attempts to discover what I want to be when I grow up (any suggestions? I’m open!), I have found myself slightly without a job. I have a couple […]
Continue Readingby Carrie Bornstein Last week, Cindy shared how she found meaning at Mayyim Hayyim in 2004 after being turned away from her local mikveh when she told them she’d be marrying another woman. I was inspired by her words – but what struck me more was her willingness to give Mayyim Hayyim a chance when she so […]
Continue Readingby Noreen Leibson It began in water. Floating, tumbling, supported by the nurturing fluids sent with love from my mother to me, her little embryo. Grew to love and fear the water. No longer able to able to breathe without emerging from its depth. The water, my first home, became a place I continued to love, but not […]
Continue Readingby Talia Jaffe, Education Intern There is a decision a person has to make every time they walk into a room. They have to decide if they want to be the funny version of themselves, the nice, the frustrated, the understanding. They have to decide which of their identities they want to put forth. What […]
Continue Readingby Cindy Kalish It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years. A decade since marriage between two people of the same gender became legal in Massachusetts. It is also a decade since I immersed in a mikveh for the first time. In December 2003, a friend of mine suggested that I consider […]
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