Yehuda's Skinny Mikveh Cruise

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, spiritual purification allows us to connect to the highest levels of Divine Energy and Light. (I'm lifting this text straight from, Dialing God, Daily Connection Book, pg. 36).

Every time we behave in a reactive and negative manner, we build another layer of darkness around ourselves. These layers are called klippot ("shells") and they separate us from the Light. Removal of these negative shells covering our soul brings about the spiritual purification of our body. Our personal healing, enlightenment, and good fortune increase in equal measure to that amount of purification we achieve. For that reason, the ancient sages advocated the use of a powerful and profound purification tool -- mikveh, or immersion.

A mikveh is a pool of living waters. The waters in the Kabbalah Center mikveh are living waters sourced from underground wells. It is said that all the wells on earth are interconnected.

Water is the physical expression of the Light of the Creator. It possesses truly magical qualities. Kabbalah teaches that water holds the keys to healing, longevity, regeneration and even immortality.

Thus, when we dip ourselves in the mikveh, we are immersing our body and soul into the same pristine waters that flowed into the mikveh of Rav Isaac Luria (The Ari). We are also connecting to the same holy waters of the Shiloach in Jerusalem, which were used by the high priests of the Temple over a thousand years ago.

The positive charge of the mikveh eliminates up to 400 levels of negativity. According to the technology of Kabbalah, the size of a mikveh must be 40 se'ah (se'ah is an ancient measurement equal to the size of 144 eggs). Each se'ah helps us to purify ten levels of negativity (40 x 10 = 400 levels of negativity).

The mikveh can counteract the forces of death by imbuing us with the primordial power of life. Spiritual blockages are cleansed as healing flows throughout our being.

The kabbalists recommend that we should enter into a mikveh as often as possible.

We should immerse ourselves 11 times under the water as follows:

The first immersion activates the process of removing all the negativity. We then recite the following:

(transliteration: kumah, Adonai, v'yafutzu, oyivecha, v'yanusu, mesan'eicha, mephaecha). We meditate on the combinations from the 72 Names of God to connect to the energy of the mikveh: Yud-Caf-Shin, Chet-Bet-Vav, Yud-Lamed-Yud.

Then we immerse 10 more times, one for each of the Sfirot:

Keter, Chochmach, Binah, Chesed, Gvurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut.

Here's how that went for me, Ale and Belinda in Israel.