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Behind the Mikvah: An Intimate Look at the Spa for the Soul

1.2K views · Jan 17, 2023

Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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  1. 0:00yourselves. Our new mikvah, for sure, is a spa for the body. You won't believe it…
  2. 1:00Mishnah Yoma tells us, "May I bring you a shirah Yisrael. My mikvah metaharis es Yisrael…
  3. 2:31submerged, surrendering. And similarly, a relationship to a kodesh baruch hu, to the ribono shel olam,…
  4. 3:31underwater, you cannot survive there. We say, "Hashem, for this moment, I nullify, I relinquish all…
  5. 5:01no inhibition. There's no protection or security. We return the way we were. So something says…
  6. 6:34affection and intimacy, a hope for closeness and connection, a hope for converts to realize their…
  7. 7:36place of tikvah. It's the mem, the place of kavod, the place of hope. It is…
  8. 9:08the Hebrew alphabet that what's revealed and what's hidden are exactly the same. How do you…
  9. 10:09learning, they give to all kinds of causes. By the way, you can all give to…
  10. 11:40being here to support this place of hope. This mikvah, the place of hope. But our…

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