By a Shlucha
Last year, I joined one of the Global Phone-Call Farbrengens for women and was inspired by the Mikvah 1000 campaign to increase the awareness for the Mitzvah of Taharas Hamishpacha.
Soon thereafter, I organized a special event focusing around the power of Jewish femininity and family purity, at the end of which participants toured our Mikvah.
One of the people attending, who I have never met before, came up to me following the event. She thanked me for the insightful teachings and said that she had always been interested in learning more about this topic.
She said she has been married to a Jewish man for 4 years now and was told by doctors that “she couldn’t have children.” We went on to speak a little more about the concept of building a family and the meaning of the Mikvah waters.
Later that week she came with her husband and asked for a crash course, following which she went to the Mikvah for the first time in her life.
On Thursday, 18 Teves 5776, at 7:55 PM, she gave birth to her long-awaited healthy baby boy. She has no doubt as to where the bracha came from.
If every person is a whole world, there is no question that the whole Mikvah event was worth it just for this one neshama who was able to enter the world in Tahara!
I know of a woman, a good friend, who had 2 children and then no more for 5 years. She really wanted more children. Her mother, about 55-60 years old, who was not frum came to town and she decided she would go to the mikva for the first time in her life. Shortly after he daughter gave birth and went on to have a 2nd child 1.5 years later
A lady confided in me @ the mikva that she decided to be more careful of details of the observance of taharas hemishpocha. After her first full observance she suddenly got an offer of a great job. The beauty of it is that she realized the connection!
55 years ago i took someone to go to the Mikvah, she was married 9 years with no children, and 9 months later she gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Yoseph Yitzchok
Years ago in Richmond, Virginia we organized an event for Taharas Hamishpacha and Nechama Heber was the speaker. Immediately after the program, a woman I did not know well, if at all, came over to me and said she would like to go to the Mikvah. I said how about learning about it first, etc..she said ‘no’ i just want to go as soon as possible. So she did and when she immersed, I told her it was an ‘eis ratzon’ to pray for whatever she wanted. Remember, I did not know her, she was totally secular…and I thought maybe… Read more »
Thanks for sharing….
Tanya Shiurim and a Taharas Hamishpacha Review in ones home after which the attendees bentch the couple using their full Hebrew names is a great Segula for children
Its always worth doing more events. even if we dont see the outcome,we dont know how much people gained.
Thanks for sharing such an amazing story!
Thank you for sharing this powerful story!
Thanks for sharing
Wow!