Day 45 - Friday, December 8 - Mikveh: Gateway to Purity
One of the highlights of the Maimonides Leaders Fellowship program that I run on campuses around Chicago is the Sunday tour of West Rogers Park, the observant neighborhood of Chicago. We visit the Ark, the boys school (yes, they have school on Sunday mornings), sometimes the Matzah factory. While the boys visit the Chicago Community Kollel, the girls visit the Bnei Reuven mikveh. As you'll read in this essay, the mikveh is the cornerstone of Jewish life. With so much of Judaism, it is so misunderstood and maligned. A visit to the mikveh is my way of introducing the girls to the beauty of Jewish purity and sanctity in a world which has become so jaded.
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I have found many chapters in this book very inspiring. However, at the same time, some of the chapters I disagree with. This one in particular. I cannot believe that G-D would ever find the female body impure at any time. G-D would not make a male and female and determine that one is impure and can only become pure by emersing herself in a mikveh.
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