On a path a Michelle Jones type situation

Mikvah Date

April 2, 2009 9:30AM
It’s kind of incredible how powerful and amazing all this feels.

Mikvah Date

April 2, 2009 9:30AM
It’s kind of incredible how powerful and amazing all this feels.

Witnesses

I’m lining up witnesses for my visit to the mikvah and I’m overwhelmed with how genuinely honored people seem to be at having been asked. It’s such an honor to me that they said yes that it’s almost amazing to me that they’d be honored as well. On the flip side though, knowing how much [...]

Witnesses

I’m lining up witnesses for my visit to the mikvah and I’m overwhelmed with how genuinely honored people seem to be at having been asked. It’s such an honor to me that they said yes that it’s almost amazing to me that they’d be honored as well. On the flip side though, knowing how much [...]

What Led Me Here (part 2)

Tiffany prompted me to go deeper in the comments to yesterday’s post and since I ended up writing a novel in response I’m copying it here as its own post.
Heh, that’s the question isn’t it? I can remember being 13 years old and being immensely attracted to the very few principles of Judaism that [...]

What Led Me Here (part 2)

Tiffany prompted me to go deeper in the comments to yesterday’s post and since I ended up writing a novel in response I’m copying it here as its own post.
Heh, that’s the question isn’t it? I can remember being 13 years old and being immensely attracted to the very few principles of Judaism that [...]

What Led Me Here

I give you fair warning that as my mikvah and conversion ceremony dates
grow ever closer I’m going to probably be writing about my conversion a
great deal. Not only is this a huge milestone for me but it’s also a
great joy in my life. Finding and reveling in great joy is not really
in my nature. I [...]

What Led Me Here

I give you fair warning that as my mikvah and conversion ceremony dates
grow ever closer I’m going to probably be writing about my conversion a
great deal. Not only is this a huge milestone for me but it’s also a
great joy in my life. Finding and reveling in great joy is not really
in my nature. I [...]

Miriam

“Miriam’s qualities that stayed with her through her adult life – boldness, and intelligence.”

“This was Miriam. She encompassed the dual qualities of feeling the intensity
of pain while at the same time rebelling against its overpowering hold to
discover a seed of faith and yearning, deep within.”

One of the Tribe

My rabbi and I set the dates for my trip to the mikvah and my conversion ceremony today. I am overwhelmed with emotion and confidence that this is absolutely the place I need to be and what I need to do in my life. I am so ready.
There are few times in my life [...]