Омовение в зуме, или современное еврейское язычество

Новости прогрессивно-духовных поисков и изысков бывают порой столь удивительно прекрасны, что комментировать их решительно невозможно. Только цитировать, подчеркивая наиболее удивительное и прекрасное.
Заодно можно составить представление, что в этих кругах считается "поэзией". А так же порадоваться уровню знаний.

Last Passover, a group of 125 Jews gathered via Zoom to collectively participate in the tradition of the mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath. Dr. Harriette Wimms, a queer Black Jewish psychologist and kohenet (Hebrew priestess), opened the ceremony by pouring libations, an African tradition of granting a water offering for ancestors. Some people immersed themselves in their bathtubs, spilled water down their bodies or waded into their local lakes. They sang prayers and shared artwork.

Zuriel Biran, a transgender Black poet from Chicago, read one of his poems: “I reorient myself to a future of interconnectedness. Where my life is so woven alongside others that I cannot seriously entertain the notion of cutting it short, or vanishing. I must allow myself to be known.”

The ceremony was organized by the Queer Mikveh Project, a grassroots initiative seeking to transform the traditional mikveh practice into a communal experience, centering queer Jews of color leading spiritual rituals.

The project was founded in 2015 by Rebekah Erev, a Jewish feminist artist, organizer and kohenet. The first event was held in-person, pre-pandemic in Albany, California...he group sang and prayed, building a communal altar in support of social justice causes such as Indigenous water rights.

Immersing in a mikveh, or ritual bath, is a Jewish ritual traditionally taken by women when undergoing a conversion, marriage or in keeping with niddah (menstrual purity).