Is it OK to use a Mikvah as a healing tool for survivors of sexual violence?
1. Is it OK to use a Mikvah as a healing tool for survivors of sexual violence?
2. Do you think it would be helpful?
3. Would your rabbi understand and or approve?
By Yonah Klem
Mikvah's Around the World
2. Do you think it would be helpful?
3. Would your rabbi understand and or approve?
By Yonah Klem
Mikvah's Around the World
posted by Jewish Survivors at Saturday, February 19, 2005
2 Comments:
I wanted to do this, but a friend of mine asked her orthodox rabbi who said that it's very forbidden for an unmarried woman to use the mikva. I don't want to do this anymore. I don't need to dip into some bath of water to cleanse myself, I am already pure and clean in my own right. I have been renewed.
I thought unmarried women used the mikva right before Yom Kippur? I think this is B.S. If a woman would find this to be healing, then the woman should be able to do this.
I am not orthodox and don't ever plan to be. I wonder if the orthodox rabbi who your friend went to see was also a survivor of sexual abuse or of a rape if their view on this healing ritual would be different?
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