Some women sing Chassidic tunes or Yom Kippur prayers, some write a personal prayer or learn Torah just as they enter the water. As part of the decision to live a life of Torah and Mitzvot and keep the laws of purification in the mikve, the decision of what this means to each woman, is no less important than the actual tevilla itself.

I wonder about us as a society. I wonder about the civic language that exists but has not yet sufficiently settled within our religious life

On the desire to eradicate the Rabbinical authority to harm the ethical responsibility that must be engaged when taking on a Rabbinical position. The attention, the understanding, the keeping of secrets, the commitment to others, not as mere chatter on the relationship between me and you, but as an undertaking and the realization of the... להמשיך לקרוא ←