From "The Guide for the
Salvation of our People"
Security, Peacefulness and
Happiness!
by Imanuel Ravad
We are in mortal danger, where
there is no fear of G-d, declared our Forefather Abraham, (Bereshit 25:11).
Peace was promised to us, on the condition that all our people will observe
Torah laws, (Vaikra 25). It is incumbent on each of us to endeavor that all our
people will keep the Torah and mitzvos as written:
"When all your sons study
Torah, great peace will be to your sons (Yeshayau 54). An easy and effective
way to reach fear of heaven is through men's Mikva Immersion, with the
intension to connect with prayers of the heart to G-d! The first to Immerse was
Adam the first human-being! This was the first thing he did, on his first
Sunday of his life on earth! - he immersed in the Shiloach spring mikva, (about
500 meters from the western wall, in the city of David), in order to repent and
ask forgiveness from his sin (Pirkei Derabi Eliezer 20), And what was important
and good to Adam, is certainly also good and important for everyone!
Since Immersion leads to:
1. complete isolation from the
environment. 2. cessation the activity of the five senses, which always
preoccupy us, and may interfere with the concentration of thought. 3. The
stopping of our breathing, when we are at the gate between life and death, and
in the face of death every person instinctively communicates to the Creator, in
awe and fear and prays in his heart to G-d and asks of Him not only life, but
also help to solve his life problems. Since there is no man without problems,
as it is G-d Who creates the problems for every human-being, at any time,
according to his situation, in order to motivate him to repent. Therefore,
every man rises from the mikva with the "HOPE" (tikva) of a new and
more glamorous page for his life.
This "HOPE" brings
happiness and leads man to sense gratitude to G-d and to remember with greater
strength that G-d too has demands of us, and that we must first fulfill His
requirements in order that Hashem will fulfill our requests with mercy and
compassion. At this point we are on the glorious road to repentance.
Therefore, after immersion,
every man thinks differently, prays and lives differently, and the life of the
entire community becomes more serious – one of learning and observing all Torah
laws – and the Mitzva of Jewish purity is strictly and properly observed as
required – which leads to the feeling of Security, Peacefulness and Happiness!
Therefore, although now-a-days
men have no Torah obligation to mikva immersion, nevertheless due to the
positive results, it is of great importance. Since the subject is not
sensitive, it is easy to speak about, and to convince men to immerse; when men
immerse the entire holiness of the life of the family gets the proper
observance. It is preferable to build the men's mikva in the synagogue
compound, in order to allow a direct ascent from the prayer of the heart to G-d
in the mikva - to the fervor of prayer in the synagogue, without having to pass
through the distracting street-views.
Another point:
The opening sentence of the
Talmud (the oral Torah) is about the issue of faith in the Creator! Because
this faith is what gives the motivation and power to keep Torah laws! Every Jew
must declare their faith in the Creator by saying the verse of "Shma
Yisrael" - "Hear, O' Yisrael – Hashem - is our G-d - One"! And
we must declare this faith at least twice a day, evening and morning (and it
seems to say, that for the same reason we say this verse also before the
reading from the Torah in public). The first sentence of the Talmud is a
question:
From what time we may start
saying the Declaration of Faith – "the reading of Shma" of the
evening?
Instead of a short and direct
answer:
From the time of the rising of
the stars, the Talmud adds an indirect theme: the time we may start is the same
as the time when the Kohanim (men) who were "Tamei", and forbidden to
eat "Truma", until they immerse in a Mikva, during the day, and
nevertheless they are not permitted to eat Truma until the "rising of the
stars", and from here we learn that the time of the "reading of the
Shma" is also from the "rising of the stars". Why did the Talmud
have to add this long subject, instead of answering briefly, that the time of "reading
of the Shema" is from the "rising of the stars"? And it seems
that the reason is, since the opening sentence of the Talmud is about the
subject of faith, the Talmud had to add the subject of the Mikva immersion of
Kohanim- men - Since mikva immersion strengthens "faith" out of an
inner feeling!
Another point:
Any person, even in a state of
purity, is not permitted to enter the Mikdash before Mikva immersion, which
must take place immediately before entering! One of the reasons might be in
order to remind us:
"before whom do we
stand" (Yoma 30). There are also those who immerse daily before the
morning prayers, and there are those who immerse before "personal
prayers" for special problems or requests.
Unfortunately today we are the
only country in the world threatened with total destruction by nuclear bombs,
by a country with which we share no border. They have no particular reason to
destroy us, as 70 years ago they were actually a very important ally of the
State of Israel.
At the Passover Seder we declare
yearly:
"In every generation,
people rise to destroy us and Hashem rescues us from them!" However the
price of our rescue can be high or low, depending on the repentance of all our
people. Our salvation from the German oppressor costed us a third of our
people. Certainly by the above threats G-d is telling us that we, and our
entire people, must repent, as written above.
Another point:
unfortunately today Many Jewish
communities around the world are being wiped off of the Jewish horizon due to
assimilation and intermarriage. In Eretz Israel too, there is assimilation,
since most of our people do not vote for parties whose main agenda is the
observance of Torah laws.
The Talmud (Pesachim 87, Rashi) states
that until the final redemption it is important for Jews to live around the
world.
Therefore it is clear that the
state of assimilation and intermarriage around the world is a problem of every
Yid, even to all the Yidden who are living in Israel, since we are all in the
same boat. (Current rate of intermarriage:
USA 75%, Europe 85%, Sweden 95%,
Bulgaria 98%). It is incumbent on each one of us to see to it that all the Jews
of the world keep Torah laws!
As written above, an easy and
effective way to bring our brothers to repent is by men's mikva immersion. (For
proof that it is very easy to reach such results, see the articles "Mikva
in the White House" and "Mikva in an Unknown Island". We have
letters describing the many practical results from places around the world, as
you can see in the article of "Results". It is therefore the duty of
each and every one not to be satisfied by reading this page, but also to act
with the necessary seriousness; as anyone can! And also to donate in order to
spread the subject in different languages around the world.
The "Corona" plague is
threatening everyone with sickness and death. Today it is clear to all that
Hashem demands from each of us to repent and bring our entire nation to
repentance. And as written above, men's mikva immersion is easy and effective
way to bring all our people back to repentance, and in this merit may Hashem
wipe off this plague from our people and from the entire world.
To educate more than 10,000,000
Jews, costs millions, and cannot be achieved with symbolic Dollar donations. It
is appropriate for each one to consider that in order to achieve real and
serious results, each one must endeavor to donate or raise each year an amount
at least equal to his family's yearly mikva expenses. Every donation will be
sincerely acknowledged and gratefully blessed.
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Wishing you "shana
tova"
Respectfully, באהבה,
Imanuel Ravad
23 Av (8.13.20)
