By Lisa Berman, Mayyim Hayyim Education Center Director Can you recreate ritual? Of course we here at Mayyim Hayyim believe that you can reimagine it, breathe new life into it, re-envision it, and interpret it in new, contemporary and meaningful ways. We do it every day with the ritual of mikveh. But could a family recreate Chanukah? […]
Continue Readingby Ceceley Chambers, Cohort 7 Mikveh Guide As a Mikveh Guide I love to witness the joyful immersions: the bashful bride, the excited teen about to become a Bat Mitzvah, and of course the adorable children who are becoming Jewish. It’s fun to show an especially excited person around Mayyim Hayyim, and to hold their […]
Continue Readingby Carrie Bornstein As we approach the end of 2012, I can’t help but engage in a little year-in-review. (Hmm… it just happens to be grant report season too. Coincidence?) In any event, for a social media nerd like me, I never pass up an opportunity to enjoy all the statistics that WordPress offers me […]
Continue Readingby Ali Kaufman Yares Prior to getting married in 2004, I did a ton of studying and reading about marriage, ketubah (marriage contract), niddah (monthly immersions), hair covering, and even divorce in halacha (Jewish ritual law). After all, I was a Talmud major taking more classes than I needed to because I truly enjoyed studying […]
Continue Readingby Sherri Goldman, Administrative and Finance Director I like numbers. Actually, what I really like are the stories behind the numbers. I have come to realize that the whole world is based on numbers. Business, government, science, music, art and even nature can be looked at through a number filtered lens, what I call the […]
Continue Readingby Sidney Davis, Mikveh Guide My first witnessed immersion experience at Mayyim Hayyim was a remarkably extraordinary event. Personally, it was an affirmation of my role as a mikveh guide. I volunteered to become a mikveh guide because I wanted to take a more active role within my Jewish community that reflected not only my […]
Continue Readingby Leah Hart Tennen, Mikveh Center Director Last week I went to Atlanta with my family to celebrate my younger son’s and my nephew’s first birthdays. My sister-in-law and I were due one day apart, the babies are 9 days apart, and many members of our large extended family (there are almost 100 members of […]
Continue Readingby Patti Grossman Today, for the first time, I will immerse in the mikveh at Mayyim Hayyim. There have been many times in the past when I considered immersing, but I never did. Big birthdays, marriages of our children, the births of four grandchildren, anniversaries. Like most of us, I think, many of the exquisite experiences […]
Continue ReadingWritten by Carrie Bornstein In less than one week, 500 people will gather to honor Rabbi Leslie Gordon and Patti and Louis Grossman. We will enjoy food and wine from around the world, hear Women of the World’s lively music, view Anita Diamant and Janet Buchwald’s newest theatrical performance, plus other surprises. I can already […]
Continue ReadingThis originally appeared on the Women’s Rabbinic Network blog, Kol Isha. Rabbinical student and former Mayyim Hayyim intern, Sara Luria shares her firsthand experience of Superstorm Sandy. by Sara Luria I decided to call my mikveh project, launched a month ago, ImmerseNYC. Oh New York — my birthplace, my home — I didn’t mean it […]
Continue Readingby Rabbi Leslie Gordon This is not a blog entry about what it feels like to immerse in Mayyim Hayyim. Most narratives in this space provide moving descriptions of the tranquility of the pools, of the restorative powers of the living waters. This is a glimpse into what it feels like on the other side […]
Continue Readingby Sarah Gurvis, Administrative Assistant For the past 13 years, I have spent every summer at URJ Eisner Camp in the Berkshires. I’ve been a camper, a counselor, and a unit head. I’ve made friends that feel more like family, and both taught and learned from hundreds of incredible children. Eisner taught me how to […]
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