Chana Even-chen: Making the Familiar New – How Teaching Non-Religious Brides Impacts My Mikveh Connection
During this time when people are looking for inspiration and connection, and while, as a nation, we count up [...]
Seven Days and Seven Weeks – Sefirot, Bedikot and the Day After
Hear Rabbanit Shani Taragin's wonderful shiur connecting Sefirat HaOmer, preparation for Shavuot, and out count up to immersion in [...]
So Far and Yet Still Close
By Chana Even-chen As we start to peek out of our houses more, and slowly emerge on Shabbat afternoons to [...]
What Are My Obligations on Mikveh Night?
Photo Courtesy of Camille Hill This question recently arrived from one of our followers: Mikveh night is always [...]
When G-d Takes Away Your Love Language
Many married couples struggle to find meaningful ways to follow the laws of Taharat HaMishpacha (Family Purity). For some, the [...]
The Pain Known as Endometriosis
Photo: Valerie Lafargue “It is not OK to miss a part of your life because of pain and [...]
The Traveling Husband
Photo: Orna Wachman For 16 years, my life has followed a rhythm. Every other week, after havdala, my [...]
Where is God in the Mikveh?
Liz Shayne recently wrote here about how the mikveh experience feels meaningless for her. It’s not anguishing, she says, but [...]
Keeping my Head Under the Water
“You stuck, are you?” “Yes, I don’t like the water.” “Want to learn how to swim?” “I can’t.” “Betcha [...]
Family Purity – the Recognition of the Divine in my Spouse
According to the laws of Family Purity, for a portion of each month, husband and wife are not allowed to [...]
What am I Meant to Feel?
I had spent an hour preparing myself for my immersion, taking my time. Carefully removing every speck of nail polish, [...]
When Biology and Psychology Make Sexual Intimacy Painful
Photo: Chris Liu, Unsplash I was 14 . I woke up one Shabbat morning doubled over in excruciating [...]
Tahara in Living Color: Identifying Niddah
Teaches women to identify basic colors of menstrual stains affecting their niddah status to lower stress [...]
Women’s Intimacy and Halakha
This 4-part course explores relationships and intimacy within a halakhic context, discussing female sexuality, body [...]
Talking Tevilla
This 3-session dialogue series includes textual analysis and personal discussion about experiences and emotions surrounding the mikveh for women [...]
Labor and Delivery Through a Halakhic Lens
Delivery and the postpartum period are full of new experiences, including new halakhic questions. This course provides halakhic and [...]
Perimenopause
Taught by medical professionals, halakhic experts, and sex educators, this course covers multiple elements of [...]
Mitzvat Onah: Intimacy and Halakha Series for Married Men
Addresses both the halakhic and the Jewish philosophical approach to sex, as well as practical [...]