Brookln, NY – Dozens of members from the Orthodox community of Park Slope gathered Monday to attend the ribbon-cutting celebrating the opening of the William and Betty Katz Center for Jewish Life which now houses Park Slope’s first ‘mikvah.’
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DNAinfo.com (http://bit.ly/131bWn2) is reporting that the 15th Street building now features a women’s mikvah, replete with elegant lighting, candles and a trickling waterfall on a subterranean level, as well as a men’s mikvah on the first floor.
Guests said that it is always worthy of a “big” celebration whenever a mikvah is built because it means more couples are getting married and starting families.
“it means we are thriving,” said one guest.
Photo credit: Eli Wohl
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This looks very impressive in terms of style. But is this a Mikvah only or some small hotel? I never heard about bed rooms in mikvahs before.
now that is a nice Mikvah
Happy to see everyone (Chabad with other chasidim) doing their part to help Klal Yisroel to fulfill this most important Mitzvah.
OMG!! Wow!! I would forget to come out!!
What a beautiful mikveh, Hashem should bless the donors and rabbi Hecht for all the hard work and money that went into this beautiful edifice.
Kudos to the Wolhendler family may this be a blessing for the neshamos of our uncle and grandfather
The bedrooms are hospitality suites for Methodist hospital
wow beautiful mikvah and hospitality suites!! I spy Elyon Systems! Great job!
beatiful
absolutely stunning. may everyone use it in good health and may the donors have much mazel and bracha and hatzlacha
Beautiful. But why do you need separate men’s and women’s mikvaos? It’s not like they’re using them at the same time of day.
Kol hakovod to all the donors to this project. I suspect they are going to get lots of customers from BP and Willy where many of the mikvahs, while technically kosher, still look like and smell like something of out of a third world bath house.
and thanks for the famos organization mikvausa for taking a big part in helping finish this mikvah
With all due respect, the Williamsburg mikvah is a nice one. I have used it when I lived there. I have seen a mikvah that needs renovation, but not in Williamsburg.
Actually no, I go to a public mikvah and used to live out of NY state and I saw mikvah in worse condition so I do know what I am saying.
I believe there is a halachah issue for men and womens mikva. Please do not quote me as I can be wrong here. But I believe a womens mikva the water has to be all or mostly rain water. A mens mikva has to be rain water but can also have be filled with a nice amount of faucet water when the water goes down. So yes men can use a womens mikva but a women cannot use a mens mikva.
As everyone else pointed out already there is just common sense reasoning as to why there are two different mikva’s.