“The Mikveh"
The mikveh simulates the original living water,
the primal sea from which all life comes,
the womb of the world,
the amniotic tide on which the unborn child is rocked.
To be reborn, one must reenter this womb and “drown” in its living waters,
in order to then emerge fresh, clean, and new.
Rosh Hashanah is a time of creation and recreation.
Built into the fabric of our world is the
ability to be renewed and to start again.
The energy of newness and possibility is available to us.
There is a custom to immerse in the waters of the mikvah before Rosh Hashana
(or Yom Kippur).
When we emerge from those primal waters,
we are like a newborn baby filled with potential.
We return to the essence of who we are.
In the womb we were not yet fully created.
In the womb we could see from one end of the world to the other.
In the womb we lived without time or space to constrain us.
In the womb we were pure and filled with possibility.
In the womb there was an angel who taught us all the wisdom of the world.
In the womb we promised to be good and not be evil.
When we emerge from the mikveh, it is as if
we are emerging from the womb,
born again, filled with love and an open heart,
ready to be the best versions of ourselves.
On Rosh Hashanah we are like those newborns,
filled with curiosity, inquisitiveness, an
eagerness to learn and a thirst for relationships.
On Rosh Hashana we blow the shofar.
The shofar emits a raw and existential sound that precedes words,
it is a primal scream.
It is the soul of the world talking and
it connects deeply with who we are at the core of our being.
Rosh Hashana is a powerful, intense and real day.
It is THE day to stand in relationship to everything and
fully understand that there is a God that is
The Place within which we all exist.
So may this Rosh Hashana be a time when we emerge
clean, pure, sweet, happy,
excited, awe filled, and
ready to stand tall and manifest all of our infinite potential.
Much love to you all
May God bless us all with peace, good health, joy and meaning.
Elissa
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