Are you A Salad or a Dough? Two Definitions of Marriage - Korach Women's Class

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a small tiny teaching in the Midrash really contains such profound truths in terms of philosophy, theology, psychology, spirituality, our own emotional well-being, how it relates to our lives as individuals, and our lives as part of a collective, as part of a family, part of a community, part of the marriage institution. And I'm going to begin with the following very famous halakha, very famous Jewish law concerning a mikvah. Everybody knows that in Judaism, we have a concept called the mikvah, the ritual bath, which is a body of water, a pool of water, where when one immerses themselves, it creates a profound spiritual cleansing and purity and sense of sanctity. The mikvah applies both for men and women, even though different situations and different circumstances, and was used in ancient and is still used in contemporary Jewish life frequently and often for different purposes and reasons, but the common denominator is that the mikvah in Judaism has a very powerful ability and potential to be able to affect a deeper state of inner wholesomeness, purity, uh clarity, sanctity in a human being's life. One of the most fundamental concepts of the mikveh is that it has to be natural water, not what we call mayim shuvim, which loosely translated will say is tap water. So, if I fill up my bath with tap water, that's not kosher for a mikveh. The mikveh has to be natural water, which means heavenly water that is not affected by human contact. So, for example, in ancient times they would have rainwater that would descend into a cistern or a pit in the ground, and that became the mikveh. Today we still use that rainwater, even though there's different methods that are used in order

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