World Water Day 2023: Impromptu Open Water Mikveh

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World Water Day 2023: Impromptu Open Water Mikveh

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by Erica Riddick  I came up, breaking the surface of the water, and opened my eyes. Fresh lake water droplets melded with my saltwater tears. So many things colliding together at once burst forth as a geyser of emotion. I had entered the water in Saugatuck, Michigan with the intention of marking a transition toward […]

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From Mikveh Witness to Mikveh Author

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By Cantor Rachel Stock Spilker  My connection to mikveh is nearly as old as Mayyim Hayyim itself.   Eighteen years ago, I was in Boston visiting family. My sister-in-law, who was then a Mayyim Hayyim board member, asked me to go to the mikveh with her as she marked a miscarriage – sadly one of many. […]

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You Keep Us Afloat

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by Molly Kazan, Development Manager We’re really into water and its whole shtick over here.   We exist because of water. We know all about its properties, we cherish its power, and we revel in its potential. Closing our doors this month because of water damage has been such a blow to our hearts.    The bright […]

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Important news about Mayyim Hayyim’s leadership

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Dear Friend, I am writing to share important and bittersweet news with you. After fifteen years on staff and nearly eleven years serving as CEO of Mayyim Hayyim, Carrie Bornstein has decided to step down from that role in summer 2023. Since 2006, Carrie has been a pillar of the Mayyim Hayyim community, first as […]

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Where I went to mourn my miscarriage

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December 2022 / Kislev 5783 Dear friend, A few months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I opened my email to find this message: “Mayyim Hayyim will always be a safe place to mark an abortion, whatever the circumstances. Many in our community are righteously angry and ready to fight for our rights.”  This blew […]

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From Hesitation to Connection: A Beneath the Surface Story 

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By Grace Sokolow When I was twelve years old, I played soccer year-round, listened obsessively to Bruno Mars, and thought that a three-page paper was a long assignment. The last thing I wanted to do on a Sunday afternoon was something Jewish. Weren’t Hebrew school and Bat Mitzvah tutoring enough?  But my Rabbi recommended a […]

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I got out of the mikveh and realized…

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Tishrei 5783 / October 2022   Dear friend, My group of friends has a history of going on mikveh adventures. Once it was skinny dipping in a river before Shabbat. Another time it was in a cave in Israel. Most recently, my friend, Moises, invited us to join him at Mayyim Hayyim a few days before […]

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Mikveh Guides, Niddah, Shabbat and Holidays

Living Waters

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By Leann Shamash So much of what is written in Parshat Metzora, this week’s Torah portion, concerning blood and emissions still lives on to this day. Who would think that a parsha which details bodily emissions would spur a tradition of mikveh, with water a liquid vehicle to heal and transform? Mayyim Hayyim has taken […]

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