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 umitzvos 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, bezras 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.