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There and Back Again

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by Samantha Testa I was raised Jewish, I learned about the mikveh in Hebrew school. And like a lot of other things I learned in Hebrew school it didn’t stick with me. Then last summer, I interned at Mayyim Hayyim and I was reintroduced to the mikveh. It changed how I view and experience the […]

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Discovering Ritual for my Children

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by Sherri Goldman, Administrative and Finance Director I wrote recently about my children at the mikveh. It was a story of hope that my children know Mayyim Hayyim is a place where they are welcome and immersion is an option in their lives. Coming from a non-traditional religious background, immersion was not part of my […]

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Anything Else but the War

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by Sheila Handler It’s Thursday evening and I’m lying in my bathtub, preparing myself for the mikveh. In the background, the radio is playing, announcing the missile strikes, as they hit; down South, in Ashkelon, Yavne and Be’er Sheva; in the center of our country, in Tel Aviv, Petach Tikva and Kfar Saba;  up North […]

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Mikveh → Tikvah

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by Carrie Bornstein The world feels like an ugly place right now. We can’t escape the reality – all throughout the internet, on the news, on the radio, in conversations with friends – that our world is a highly imperfect place. We are in the lowest time of our liturgical year too. These weeks between […]

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Creating Traditions

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by Rene Katersky, Mayyim Hayyim Mikveh Guide Judaism is filled with beautiful traditions and rituals. Indeed, our lives and the lives of our families are made fuller and richer by the traditions that we establish. In so doing, we honor special moments and make them holy. I find it heartwarming to know that some of […]

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Escaping the Bubble

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by Walton Clark, Office Assistant Often times, I see and hear about people getting caught in the proverbial bubble, having this feeling of being stuck where they are. Life is just the same series of actions, over and over again; the feeling that what happens today is not any different from the next day. The feeling […]

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Mourning at the Mikveh

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by Rachel I ate a slice of pizza on Yom Kippur this year. I have not told anyone that. Well, of course my husband knows because he came into the kitchen and saw me sitting on our red linoleum floor eating the cold slice of pizza I found in the fridge. He did not judge […]

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Saying Goodbye

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by Jody Comins, Development and Events Coordinator When my older daughter was born fifteen years ago, I went to my supervisor and asked if I could work 4 days a week to have time with my baby. A year later, I cut my hours back to “mom’s hours” and she said to me, “It’s wonderful to […]

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Longing for a Mikveh Guide

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by Alanna Cooper I generally don’t speak much about mikveh. An intimate aspect of life, practiced in almost total privacy, the topic doesn’t lend itself to much conversation.  Now, on occasion of Mayyim Hayyim’ tenth anniversary celebration, I’ll open up, using the opportunity to reflect on why I miss it so much since I moved […]

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A Sense of Belonging

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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.   […]

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Yes, Mayim – We Do Need You

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The 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 […]

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Mikveh Prayer

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by 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 […]

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