Mikvah Mei Menachem: Reopening of the Brooklyn Heights Mikvah

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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.

thank you so much for coming welcome everyone to the mayak mik's reopening dedication event can everybody hear me okay okay all right um so I'm Ellie Stone I'm of the mikah committee and I've been so honored to be a part of this renovation team along with Marcy Ross sty Rasin Yael Rasin Shandy Raskin and Brook Bryant as well of course as Rabbi Raskin Rabbi Raskin um our beautiful original Mikvah opened nearly 30 years ago um but after 30 years showed significant signs of wear and tear and was in you know dramatic need of renovation uh and so this renovation which has been conducted over the past year has been an enormous project project but has been tremendously gratifying um in addition to sort of the Cosmetic changes of tiling and finishes that you'll see today we really completely rebuilt the foundation of the prep rooms we replaced foundation of the prep rooms we replaced all the electrics and wiring did waterproofing revamped our exhaust systems and installed new Plumbing um and perhaps most importantly we've upgraded the mikah heating system so offering a wonderful warm uh mikah immersion experience and our filtration system to the topof thee line Mika Tech uh that meets all Israeli Ministry of Health standards for water Purity in mikas and so I guess as an infectious diseases physician I was very pleased about this um this um so we have a beautiful Mikvah and we're so excited to show everyone and uh we have several speakers today to talk about mikah and um but before we get to the speakers I just wanted to very briefly Express on behalf of the Mika committee our deep thanks and gratitude to everyone who's been so generous um with their time and with their contributions so first of course Rabbi Rasin [Applause]

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1. 0:00thank you so much for coming welcome everyone to the mayak mik's reopening dedication event can…
2. 4:56toes to almighty God for allowing us to make this beautiful Mikvah and a special thank…
3. 9:04project uh and we're so fortunate for his guidance and his generosity uh and we're so…
4. 13:42it's and there was one person that went to the Army there and he let's call…
5. 17:48extreme self-sacrifice Brit circumcision all the generations always all the stories in Russia and so on…
6. 22:27and the totality of the Jewish people your blessings for long life health happiness and good…
7. 26:40other but both of them committed to God to that third triangle to something greater in…
8. 30:45and forth and you bump into each other and you better have goggles with your eyes…
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