Prayer <-> Mikva Connection?!
Prayer Mikva Connection?!
What is the connection between prayer and immersion?
- Emotionally, Mikva-immersion is a descent into a private meeting with Hashem - "To Stand Alone With G-d!"
- Within the Mikva waters, we are stripped also from our pride and we stand humbly and with total submission to the Creator, which adds power to our prayers.
- In complete isolation from the environment, without interference from our 5 senses, which keeps us always busy, disturbing our concentration of thought, which may mislead us with false good feeling even when we stand at the entry to an abyss. This isolation allows us to focus on our most important personal problems, before we worry about the problems of the people who are the closest to us.
- Deprived of breathing we stand at the gate between life and death, when instinctively every human-being is calling out to the Creator, and begging: "O' G-d!" - "Please help!"
- Then every human-being is submitting G-d his daily list of requests.
- Engraved in the Human-soul, as soon as we ask a favor, the sense of "gratitude" requires us to do all that we are asked. Therefore, as soon as we submit our requests to G-d, we realize with greater strength, that G-d too Has a list of demands from us: mainly that we should study Torah, also in order to acquire the knowledge of keeping G-d's commandments.
- We must anticipate to-fulfil G-d's requirements from us, in order that G-d should receive with mercy and compassion our prayers.
- Hence we join the road of repentance.
- And we emerge from the Mikva with the Hope and Joy of a New Leaf for a better and more glorious life.
- Therefore, Mikva immersion is a most effective mean to call out to G-d out of Hope, even in good times, in order to avoid problems and/or to resolve them.
First published on 02/08/2016
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