Mikvah Update
Feb. 21st, 2007 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wrenbI met with the Chabad rebbetzin this afternoon about using their mikvah next week. Good news and bad news. The good news is that she is willing to let me use her mikvah (it really is hers. It's in her house, near the kitchen). The bad news is that my conversion was not halakhic enough for her. So she wasn't comfortable giving me the education that she would for another Jewish woman regarding preparations for the mikvah and she also will not be my mikvah lady and make sure my immersion is kosher, because of course it can't be according to her standards (because I'm not Jewish by her standards).
I just keep repeating what a dear friend of mine always tells me in these situations. "We're Reform. We don't have to do it that way!". Reform Judaism is about informed choice. So I am studying immersion in the mikvah and I have decided that it is a spiritually appropriate thing for me to do. I will have to go to the mikvah prepared with all the prayers and blessings I want to say and sure of what I want to do because there will be nobody to tell me what to do.
I am so grateful that the rebbetzin is letting me use their mikvah, though. It's something I've been curious about for a long long time, and it's what I need to do right now. So I just have to be Super-Jew or rather Super-Progressive-Jew and work out how to do it myself.
I just keep repeating what a dear friend of mine always tells me in these situations. "We're Reform. We don't have to do it that way!". Reform Judaism is about informed choice. So I am studying immersion in the mikvah and I have decided that it is a spiritually appropriate thing for me to do. I will have to go to the mikvah prepared with all the prayers and blessings I want to say and sure of what I want to do because there will be nobody to tell me what to do.
I am so grateful that the rebbetzin is letting me use their mikvah, though. It's something I've been curious about for a long long time, and it's what I need to do right now. So I just have to be Super-Jew or rather Super-Progressive-Jew and work out how to do it myself.
