Mikvah Mei Menachem Original Video

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Aaron L Raskin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] this year on the Jewish calendar the year 5760 according to many cabalists is known as the year of the Mikvah because according to Torah law you need 40 sa about 170 gallons of water to produce the ritual bath and according to this great cabalist it is 5,760 eggs that have to go in to make that amount of water my husband and I were attending Lincoln Square beginner services on the upper west side and we were looking to move to Brooklyn and we needed to find a community with a modern Orthodox sh um and just basically we were looking for the sh first and then hoping that we would find a really beautiful part of Brooklyn and then we called Rabbi Rasin and he said yeah come on over come on over um yeah it's a modern Orthodox SCH with acidic twist and when we got here on that first weekend he he walked us you know came to the door and he said hi I'm the cdic twist we were looking for a place to live after we got married and uh the first first thing we had to do is find a synagogue so uh Jeremy did that work while I was looking for a place to live we knew there were a few around so we just got lucky very lucky I think it is so important when we first started to be interested in becoming religious um people would invite us over to their homes for shabas and I think just

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1. 1:18services on the upper west side and we were looking to move to Brooklyn and we…
2. 2:52upon hearing about Mikvah and the laws of family Purity was no way I'll do do…
3. 4:25wonderful thing for me about the mcfi the convenience it's just since I've been married I've…
4. 5:25having by having a Mikvah that's now up and running uh within our community uh it's…
5. 6:58aspect of life comes from God and can be [Music]…
6. 8:46members of the sh of course we we hope that uh people will come into the…
7. 9:48the pool is technically considered a vessel if there's any dings or bends or things like…
8. 11:22the Jerusalem Stone to the appointments to the showers you're able to separate anything that you've…

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