New Mikvah for Ann Arbor

By Shimmy Blum
Yeshivah World News

The Jewish community of Ann Arbor, Michigan, celebrated a historic milestone on Sunday, March 8th, with the chanukas habayis of a beautiful newly renovated  Mikvah, sponsored and built by Mikvah USA.

This is the only Mikvah in Ann Arbor, a well-known suburb of Detroit. Until now, the more than a dozen shomer Torah u’mitzvos families that live in the community needed to travel approximately 45 minutes each way to Detroit for each Mikvah use because their Mikvah was in a total disrepair

The chanukas habayis was a festive affair that was attended by a cross section of the local Jewish community. It was immediately obvious that the new Mikvah did not only ease the burden for frum families, but is also having a transformative effect across the community.

Chabad Director Rabbi Aron Goldstein relates that immediately after the chanukas habayis, he heard of two non-religious families that inquired about using the Mikvah. The Mikvah has already caused them to grow in taharah and advance towards a full Torah lifestyle, a path that other local families are expected to follow, b’ezras Hashem.

“Every time a new Mikvah is completed, we see the great simcha that yidden in the community feel,” says Rabbi Baruch Cywiak, Director of Special Projects for Mikvah USA. “This motivates us to continue this avodas hakodesh until every Jewish community has an upstanding Mikvah to call its own.”   


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