Gathering the Waters: Reimagining Mikveh (online, also open to teens)

Are you interested in an ancient Jewish ritual to mark a life transition, seek healing, celebrate a milestone, or as a regular embodied practice? The Torah teaches that mikveh, the gathering of the waters was one of God’s earliest acts of creation, and mikva’ot, ritual pools, have been used in Jewish communities for thousands of years. In this three-session class open to teens and adults, we will study Biblical and rabbinic sources and explore contemporary mikveh ritual.  If participants wish, Maria will co-create immersion rituals with students and arrange visits to the mikveh outside of class time.

TUITION: $30/member, $45/non-member

Maria Pulzetti is a student at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she seeks to integrate her love of Torah into her work toward justice, dignity and wholeness for all people.  She finds sacred connection in learning people’s stories and being present with them through times of challenge, transition and joy.  She is honored to serve GJC, her family’s spiritual home, as student rabbi. She is a mikveh guide trained through the Mayyim Hayim Seven Steps curriculum. Maria received her BA from the University of Virginia and her JD from Yale Law School.