When a Kallah Calls to Cry
As a kallah teacher, before the wedding I make sure to discuss the wisdom and challenges of the dramatic ‘on-off’ [...]
Don’t Just Ask Your Doctor; Tell Your Doctor
Women’s health and wellness, though sometimes neglected, must be a top priority for all Jewish women and their mikveh experience. [...]
5 Years In and Still Struggling
Every month as I emerge from the remodeled mikveh located a convenient five-minute walk from our home, I am visited [...]
7 Ways to Get Husbands Involved in Mikveh Night
For many mikveh observant women, our lives feel like they revolve around the mikveh. We keep track of our periods [...]
Get and Mikveh: Closing the Circle of My Jewish Marriage
I spent a lot of time, many years to say the least, deciding if I could endure the challenges in [...]
When Fear is an Obstacle to Overcome
Photo by Margo Marmon I guess I have always been afraid of water. When it turned into a phobia I [...]
Moving on After Miscarriage: Healing Body and Mind
Photo by Jodi Hirsch Lummerman I find it amazing how our physical bodies and our minds are so connected. I’ve [...]
Diary of a Friday Night Mikveh Lady
Years ago I entertained the notion of becoming a mikveh lady– but as quickly as the thought entered my head [...]
Let’s Make David Porat/Eli Shur Famous
We’re not making him famous because he’s a terrific human being that should be lauded. Because he isn’t. We’re making [...]
How to Keep your Mikveh Healthy
As much as we want mikveh attendants to provide us with a space that is supportive of our emotional and [...]
Why, as a Religious Woman, I’m Not Frequenting the Mikveh Regularly
I don’t go to the mikveh. I haven’t for years. In my 18 years of marriage I have probably [...]
My Return to Keeping the Original Hilchot Niddah
Back when I was learning Hilchot Niddah before my wedding, my kallah teacher taught me about counting the 7 “clean [...]
I Didn’t Want to Delay But…
For most of my life, I have suffered (and am regarded as someone “recovering”) from OCD, often accompanied by depression. [...]
The Balaniot Course: A Class on Fear of Water
The Eden Center has, over the last year, developed and been teaching a 10-week balaniot class for experienced balaniot to learn [...]
On Modesty, Sexuality, and Watching Girls’ Bodies, Part 2
[Adapted from the new book, Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools, by Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman [...]
On Modesty, Sexuality, and Watching Girls’ Bodies, Part 1
[Adapted from the new book, Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools, by Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman [...]
3 Important Lessons from Life Experience to Empower Brides
When I – a nervous twenty-something – married the boy/man of my dreams, I knew that I had no idea [...]
Making the Mikveh a Place to Talk about (or not Talk about) Sex and Fertility
When a woman comes to the mikveh, her mind may very well be elsewhere: on the intimacy to come, the [...]