In a video broadcast to Chabad worldwide, Rabbi Baruch Hertz remarks on the irony of sharing the significance of having a Mikvah. “We all know that Mikvah is the foundation of Yiddishkeit!”
The center of Jewish life is the Mikvah. The Tahara and Kedusha of our families have gone uncompromised by generations of Jewish women who held fast to the most sacred Mitzvah, no matter what. As the Rebbe writes, “Our spiritual existence, and our physical existence as well, depends on the observance of Taharas Hamishpacha.”
There are seven Shluchos who live in the most remote corners of North America where getting to a Mikvah demands a hefty dose of Mesiras Nefesh. Weeks of planning and scheduling and hours of traveling, either by car or by plane. Something most of us never even dream about.
Today, you can partner with them in building a Mikvah for each of their communities.
In a letter expressing his surprise that a particular city did not have its own Mikvah, the Rebbe asks, “aren’t all Jews responsible for each other?” How true this message rings today! We as anash have the responsibility and unique opportunity to step up and make the dream of a Mikvah a reality. The seven Mikvaos to be built will service hundreds of Jewish women, breathing purity into the lives of their families for generations to come.
Partaking in this Mitzvah draws down Brachos like no other. As the Rebbe writes in another letter, “We are promised from Hashem that one who comes to
purify himself will be helped. This purity brings holiness, till the ultimate holiness prophesied that “I (Hashem) will sprinkle on you pure waters and you will be pure”. With an unprecedented effort like this one, may we merit to draw down the ultimate blessing of them all, that of the final Geulah.
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