The following article written by Mayyim Hayyim Executive Director Aliza Kline was published last week in the Jewish Advocate. In Memory of Debbie Friedman, zichrona l’vracha, (may her memory be for a blessing.) By Aliza Kline January 11, 2011 Ever since hearing the news that Debbie Friedman was in critical condition, my head […]
Continue ReadingMarjorie U. Sokoll, MEd, Director of Jewish Life and Healing at Jewish Family & Children’s Service, is the founder and director of JF&CS Jewish Healing Connections which helps ensure that people feel a sense of connection when facing the challenges of illness, loss, or isolation by offering spiritual and communal supports to provide hope, comfort, […]
Continue ReadingLisa Port White gives massage and Reiki treatments to people in hospice. She is an active volunteer at Congregation Dorshei Tzedek and at Mayyim Hayyim as a mikveh guide. To learn more about her, visit her blog at www.lisaportwhite.com. I was blessed with an early mid-life crisis. Its timing was great for a career change […]
Continue ReadingThe following is a letter written by Rabbi Peter W. Stein, Temple Sinai, Cranston RI, to Carrie Bornstein, Assistant Director at Mayyim Hayyim, about his experience bringing a terminally ill congregant to the mikveh during the final days of his life. Dear Carrie, Thank you so much for enabling me to bring my congregant, Jonah,* […]
Continue ReadingMichelle shared the following with those of us who attended “Love, Loss and What I Didn’t Wear: A Red Tent Event” on December 7, 2010. For most of my life, the ritual of immersion in a mikveh felt irrelevant to me in my personal practice of Judaism. That all changed when I was confronted by […]
Continue ReadingLittle Red Dress? Check. Martinis? Check. Lipstick? Check. Having an absolutely fabulous time while raising over $87,000.00 dollars for Mayyim Hayyim? Check and Check! On December 7, over 250 women gathered for Mayyim Hayyim’s Red Tent Benefit Event, Love, Loss, and What I Didn’t Wear. We chatted, we laughed, smiled and cried; we celebrated […]
Continue ReadingThere are a million reasons to stay inside in December. We live in Boston, so it’s cold. Or worse, snowing. It’s dark out…by 4 o’clock. You’re tired, you’re working, the kids have to be fed, watered, taken to this lesson, that doctor, that party, this appointment. And your husband/boyfriend/girlfriend/partner absolutely, positively needs you RIGHT NOW […]
Continue ReadingAfter five amazing years as a fountain of creativity in the greater Boston area, inspiring new works of liturgy, curricula, publication, artwork and plays, Mayyim Hayyim is pleased to announce our very first film contest! The Everything Begins in the Water Film Contest seeks films that capture the universal notion of water as a source […]
Continue ReadingWe encourage everyone to take a look at this wonderful article, “The Plunge,” featured in the fall 2010 issue of Middlebury Magazine. Mikveh and Walden Pond…what could be better?
Continue ReadingAliza Kline, Mayyim Hayyim Executive Director, shares her thoughts on our recent Gathering the Waters International Mikveh Conference. Last week 275 people from all over the place – 22 states and Israel – descended on Boston for an intensive, engaging and challenging three-day Gathering The Waters International Mikveh Conference. It’s taken me a week to […]
Continue ReadingWe encourage everyone to check out The Energizer Rabbi’s post about the Gathering the Waters Conference to learn some more about the participant experience, the sessions and the dialogue that developed. Thanks, Energizer Rabbi- you helped lead an amazing session!
Continue ReadingRabba Sara Hurwitz shares her thoughts on the meaning of mikveh and the Gathering the Waters International Mikveh Conference. Rabba Hurwitz is a member of the Rabbinic Staff at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and the Dean of Yeshivat Maharat. Rabbi Menachem HaMeiri, (Provence, 1249-1306) teaches that on the day that God commanded Abraham to […]
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