The Gift of Mikvah

The Secret of Jewish Marriage - women share their personal connection to Mikvah.
To find your local Mikvah please look at: www.mikvah.org/directory/

[@ChefWife67]

As a Christian woman, I think this is a beautiful ritual 🙏🏻❤️ Kind of wish we had similar...

[@lissyperez4299]

Reminiscent of baptism.

[@Goadenhomestead]

Sadly the Roman Catholic Church took this away. We do have a baptism for purification and a new person in Christ. Hence why we get submerged.

[@72586jejones]

No one said you couldn't :) I myself am a Christian and take great pride in self care like this. Make a spa-like day part of your self-care and reset.

[@thegutsolution]

Paul specifically says not to concern ourselves with ritual washings. If you’ve been freed from the law, don’t long to be back under it. Messiah Jesus fulfilled the law so that we can be spiritually clean at all times.

[@1951kvk]

What a beautiful tradition.

[@albertaowusu3536]

So what about the men. ?

[@minorityofone5899]

Men are also using the mikvah.

[@lalycand4127]

Do you go every month?

[@giftofmikvah8894]

it is really a gift- try it!

[@Olamchesed]

After not touching for 12 days, your relationship is like new and fresh again

[@nenisguevaragomez8122]

What is exactly not touching during that time? Not hug, not kiss, hand holding?

[@SaraLevins]

@@nenisguevaragomez8122 nothing!

[@bettybelfort3720]

If I'm a Christian can I have this ritual if I would like to?

[@1230daniellepeterson]

Why is this only an option for Jewish women. Im a Baptist, and I find this to be spiritual healing, and would like to experience this. Forgive me if my question sounds insensitive or ignorant. I don't intend my question to be maliceful.

[@theyoutubekids2171]

Wow

[@audreykennedy8891]

Do women have to be purified after having a baby too? I have read that a woman is considered "unclean" after giving birth. However the length of being "unclean" depends on the sex of the baby. With a baby boy, the new mother is considered unclean for 3 months. With a girl however, she remains "unclean" for 6 months. I read this in a novel about orthodox jews and wonder if it is true.

[@aichan95]

Yes it is true.

[@sizzlego]

True- but isn’t it weeks instead of months?

[@l.alexandra5871]

What happens after the wedding night if you’re a virgin and bleed. Are you then not required to be Niddah and separate immediately from your husband in every way for two weeks, without a honeymoon.

[@sandradennehy6938]

I too wish women of the Christian faith had for themselves

[@j.g.c.2494]

why would a woman have to purify herself? she isn't befouled or contaminated.

[@shaindyhorowitz3783]

A menstrual cycle is an indication that there was potential for the creation of life that was not realized. It is, on some level, like a whisper of death. In Judaism, life is the most holy and precious thing Women therefore purify themselves in a mikvah after experiencing the opposite of life.

[@shaindyhorowitz3783]

Parenthetically, during the times of the temple, Jewish men and women would immerse in a mikvah after coming in contact with a dead body. This is not to say there is any judgement on the person for contracting this impurity - they could have been burying a family member, for example!

[@j.g.c.2494]

well, if you believe that then men should take a mikvah after every emission that takes place out of coitus. the loss of potential life there is massive.

[@powerofone9797]

@@shaindyhorowitz3783 Your description of the "Whisper of death" is very powerful!

[@themrmoshef]

@@j.g.c.2494 you are correct and yes there is this concept too in Judaism.

[@KimKim-pp5fn]

warm water is warm water , is like you have a bath at home so what is all this fuss ?????????????????

[@mirta000]

Plenty of public buildings there is no need for. There's no need for a spa, a cinema, a church, yet we let people have nice things.

[@Sandstar942]

They can only use water from a natural source. They could as easily go to a river, ocean, lake etc. Warmth is not the necessity - it's a purification from a natural water source.

[@leahb2877]

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