Love, Marriage and Mikvah

Insights, stories and articles to gain a deeper understanding on the beautiful Mitzvah of Mikvah and how it can enhance your marriage.
The Laws of Family Purity: A Brief Overview

The Laws of Family Purity: A Brief Overview

For the Jewish woman, immersion in a mikvah is part of a larger framework best known as Taharat Hamishpachah (Family Purity). As with every area of Jewish practice, Family Purity involves a set of detailed laws; namely, the “when”, “what” and “how” of observance. ...

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Mikvah and The Holy of Holies

Mikvah and The Holy of Holies

If we want to understand Mikvah in depth, we can turn to the references to it in the Torah. In Leviticus, Chapter 16, we read about the Yom Kippur service as practiced when we had the Temple in Jerusalem. At the apex of the service, the High Priest would enter the...

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The Mikvah – from a Male perspective

The Mikvah – from a Male perspective

Clearing the Pipeline for Hashem’s Blessings My name is Aryeh and my wife and I live in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. We are grateful to have a kosher mikvah in town for my wife to use. About two years ago, Mrs. Chana Gordon, one of the Chabad shluchot in...

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Confessions of an Imperfect Mikvah Attendant

Confessions of an Imperfect Mikvah Attendant

Sometime in my 40s, I moved to a lovely but small Jewish community. Within the first year that I was there, I was asked to be a mikvah attendant. The request was humbling, and I resisted at first, not feeling “holy” enough for the task. But my service was needed, and...

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Your Story: A Place Of Total Tranquility

Your Story: A Place Of Total Tranquility

"The mikvah for me is a place like no other. I often find myself running to the mikvah from an engagement party or other event, but once I am there it is a place of total tranquility. It is a place where I can fully take the time without any distractions to reflect...

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Is it Me or is it Hot in Here?

Is it Me or is it Hot in Here?

A married menopausal women can visit the Mikvah and not only gain spiritually herself, but also impact a retroactively positive effect on her children and grandchildren.

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The Soul of Marriage

The Soul of Marriage

I often have the feeling as I go through the twenty-four hours of the day that man is becoming more and more two-dimensional, going through the motions of life and calling it living.

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Immersed in Love

Immersed in Love

Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet reflects on how to keep a marriage alive. Rodney Dangerfield once said: “My wife and I had 25 wonderful years — then we met.”

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