Sanctifying Intimate Relationships

Intimate relationships bring two people together in a unique emotional and physical connection. This is something to celebrate, whether through the public festivity of a wedding, or in the private reflection of immersion in the mikveh. Sanctifying our intimate relationships elevates these unions and gives them a context of meaning and joy.

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Prelude to Mikveh

By Cynthia Wallace | Poem

A kavanah for ritual immersion that focuses on the experience of mikveh as an experience of the Divine [more]

Found In: Mikveh for Monthly Use: Niddah, Choosing & Affirming a Jewish Life, Healing & Hard Times

Tags: mikveh

Give Way to the Way

By Leigh Wilk | Prayer

A prayer for the mikveh [more]

Found In: Mikveh for Monthly Use: Niddah, Sanctifying Intimate Relationships, Healing & Hard Times

Tags: mikveh

We Immerse in the Waters of Eden

By Rabbi Leila Gal Berner | Complete Ceremony

Mikveh for a couple before wedding [more]

Found In: Weddings & Commitment Ceremonies, Mikveh for Monthly Use: Niddah

Tags: mikveh, shehekheyanu

A Prayer for a Woman to Say Before Returning from the Mikveh

By Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin | Poem

A love poem for marital relations [more]

Found In: Mikveh for Monthly Use: Niddah

Tags: mikveh

Ceremony for Immersion

By Rabbi Barbara Rosman Penzner and Rabbi Amy Joy Small | Complete Ceremony

Prayers to recite prior to immersion in the mikveh [more]

Found In: Weddings & Commitment Ceremonies, Mikveh for Monthly Use: Niddah

Tags: mikveh

A Blessing for a First Sexual Experience

By Rabbi Rona Shapiro | Article

Although Judaism offers myriad blessings for every event, there has traditionally been no way to mark one's first sexual experience. The author discusses the need for such a blessing and offers a possibility. [more]