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The Eden Center’s blog brings women’s voices to the fore discussing mikveh, women’s health, intimacy and more.
We love to raise awareness and present various voices on topics related to The Eden Center mission. Below are an array of blogs on mikveh, sexuality, marriage, women’s health, body image, parenting, and Taharat Hamishpacha.
This blog invites readers to submit their experience with mikveh and the laws of niddah in order to raise awareness to the range of feelings and experiences in the community. The Eden Center does not endorse positions stated in blogs, but allows authors’ voices to be heard on this platform. For blogs dealing with halakhic topics, we encourage each person to consult their own halakhic authority for clarification.
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Role of Mikvaot and Tahara During the Times of the Beit Hamikdash
The general laws relating to “tahara” (purity) are complicated, seem far from our lives, and are often hard to understand. The concepts of purity and impurity have nothing to do with physical cleanliness. Furthermore, contrary to popular belief, purity is not connected to whether you are being a [...]
Top 12 Things a Kallah Should Know About Being in an Intimate Relationship.
Every kallah teacher grapples with what to teach her kallot about intimacy and sexuality. What does a kallah need to know at the beginning that will take her into married life in a positive way, and lay the foundations for many years of a healthy intimate relationship? As [...]
Halachik Considerations of the Repeal of Roe vs Wade
Recently, the Israeli government ruled that women no longer have to go through a medical committee for approval to have an abortion, enabling women more personal freedom and control over the decision making process with regard to the right to an abortion on Israel. By contrast, the US [...]
I’m Not a Virgin
I didn't know how to phrase it. "I'm not a virgin" I muttered in the end. I grew up in what I would define begrudgingly as a modern yeshivish or machmir modern orthodox community in New York. I was educated in girl schools that were in line with [...]
Stitching a Chatzitza
A few weeks ago, I posted to the Facebook group “God Save Us From Your Opinion: A Place For Serious Discussion of Judaism”:- I'm a nurse who works in an emergency clinic. Yesterday a patient came in with a cut between her thumb and index finger, she needed [...]
Your Mikveh, Your Time
Dear Woman, Your mikveh experience is your time. It can be a time where you connect with yourself, your spirituality and your husband. Many women think of mikveh as a means to an end, a walkway that you must walk through on the way to intimacy. But really, [...]
A Full Cycle – Chuppat Niddah
When I was 7 years old, I was the quiet one. I used to hang out with my friends and cousins, and I would always be the reliable “gatekeeper” of the stories and secrets that they would tell me. That year was a close relative’s wedding. All the [...]
Stand Up and Count
By: Karen Miller Jackson As we approach Shavuot, we end the period of Sefirat HaOmer, the formal counting of the days from Pesach to Shavuot. The Torah source for Sefirat HaOmer is found in Parshat Emor וספרתם לכם ממחרת השבת מיום הביאכם את עמר התנופה שבע שבתות [...]
Updating Your Carrier Screening
By: Estie Rose Sitting around my friends’ Shabbat tables and meeting new people, the conversation inevitably goes to “do you work outside the home?” When I tell people that I am a genetic counselor for JScreen, I almost always get to learn about their carrier screening history. I [...]
Wedding Night Worries
By: Dr. Elissa Helman Every woman looks forward to her wedding. The dress, the hair, the makeup, the pictures, the fun, the friends, the experience. We have been conditioned since we were little girls to feel pretty and hopeful and excited on that special day of ours. But [...]
Embodied Redemption
In the beginning of Sefer Shmot, we are witness to the steep decline of the Jewish people into slavery. One of the lowest points, the darkest and most hopeless moments in this story, is the point when Pharoah decrees that all male, Jewish babies be thrown into the [...]
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and its Manifestation in the Observance of Family Purity
This blog is based on an article that will appear in a forthcoming book by Rabbi Pinchas Cohen, A Practical Guide to the Laws of Family Purity What is OCD? Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health disorder that affects about 1-3% of adults and is considered one [...]