Mayim Rabim

I know going from tehorah to niddah (and back again) isn't fun or easy. It's why we are supposed to calculate onot, in anticipation of niddah. It's why we count clean days in anticipation of mikveh. But I really wasn't prepared this month for my husband's reaction after I came home from mikveh. We both had a difficult time with harchakot this past cycle. I was doing ok (some extreme physical pain made me really...

The other day I was talking with someone about publishing a guide to synagogues, comparable to the Zagat guide for restaurants. That sounds fine, I said, but what the Jewish community really needs is a Zagat guide to mikvahs. What would you want it to cover, he asked? So many things, at first my brain was working too fast for anything out to come out of my mouth. The number one question, if you...

I have been seeing a gentleman and it appears to have real potential. My biggest issue to date is that he isn't frum very long. In fact, the gap in yiddishkeit knowledge between the two of us is pretty vast. I lived and practiced TH for six years. He has ZERO knowledge of TH, much less practice of it. It was a delicate issue to bring up, but since he hasn't been frum very long,...

When we were dating, and when we were engaged, I heard my soon-to-be-husband talk a lot about his rebbeim. . . . When, a month or two after our wedding, I had to deal with some impossible personal problems, my husband had one piece of advice. “Call my rebbe,” he said.

I read a very powerful group blog called Mayim Rabim. The subtext of the title is "women's reflections on mikvah and taharat hamishpacha," and all the posts center around different aspects of T"H. This evening, Desde la Oscuridad posted a unique perspe...

[A]fter I saw that the author of Mayim Rabim read my article and decided to reference it on his/her own site and write on the topic, I decided to put the original article back up because it is that important of a topic.