Family Purity

The relationship between a husband and wife is the prototype for all relationships that exist in creation. G-d created the world with masculine and feminine energies, opposite yet equal, with the goal of synthesizing them and making peace between them. By bringing sanctity into our marriage, we become a receptacle for G-d’s Infinite creative energy, as expressed by bringing children into the world. 

Each couple has a unique struggle to merge their individual desires and personalities into one unit. All of us need help and support in this journey from our third Partner, Who blesses our marriage with sanctity and harmony. We invite the third Partner into our lives through observance of the laws of family purity, which regulate our intimate life based on a woman’s natural rhythms. The couple separates during the woman’s monthly menses and reunites after she counts seven pure days and immerses in a mikvah. The cycle of separation followed by reunion closely tracks the ebb and flow of divine revelation in our lives. Sometimes G-d seems very close and present in our lives and sometimes He seems very distant, yet the distance propels us forward to connect with Him again.