Saturday, July 18, 2009

Spiritual Purification


Yesterday I came across an article in our local newspaper that caught my eye. The article is about the building of a mikvah (a ritual bath for spiritual purification) in Bozeman, Montana. Steve and I visited Bozeman in 2007. Here is a link to the article:

Jewish ritual finds home in Big Sky Country

What is a mikvah?

An ancient ritual bath in which Jewish women traditionally immerse after their monthly cycle and before the resumption of sexual relations. Also used for conversion.

Mikvah has been passed down from mother to daughter as a thoroughly private, even secret ritual. Today it is a many-faceted silent celebration of womanhood observed by a broad spectrum of Jewish women.

By immersing in the Mikvah, a woman links herself to an ongoing tradition that has spanned generations, to Jewish women around the world and throughout time. As she brings herself in immediate contact with the source of life, purity, and holiness - with G-d who surrounds her and is within her always.

Here is a link to an excellent article concerning an event that was billed as “The Ultimate Feminist Experience: Mikvah.”

What an incredibly spiritual experience it must be for Jewish women to be immersed in "living waters." Here are photographs of mikvahs.



Click here for a Mikvah Tour

And for my LDS readers, you may find this post at an LDS blog of interest: Mikvah.

Please leave a comment if you have any thoughts about the mikvah.

SHALOM

8 comments:

Stephanie said...

This seems weird to me, but probably no more weird than learning about something in the temple would to a non-Mormon.

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Janice Rubin said...


Take Down Notice:

I am writing you to respectfully request that you please remove my copyrighted photograph from an online article "Spiritual Purification"

http://kalola52.blogspot.com/2009/07/spiritual-purification.html

The photograph is of a woman immersed in a mikvah with her back facing the viewer.

This photograph is being used without my permission and can be found at my website

http://www.mikvahproject.com/nina.html

Thank you for your immediate cooperation. Please notify me by email when you have removed this image.
Thank you.
Janice Rubin