By COLlive reporter
After 8 years of planning, Chabad Columbus in Ohio celebrated a ribbon-cutting for their newly built $1.3 million Mikvah Toras Imecha in New Albany on October 10.
Construction on the Mikvah which was designed by Miriam Sandman was completed in 2020 and was immediately put into use. The grand opening ceremony was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Participants of the event this week were addressed by renowned speaker Rabbi YY Jacobson.
“The Mikvah has been in use from literally the very moment it was ready,” says the Shlucha Esther Kaltmann. “A woman who came for the very first time was moved to tears, as she never experienced Yiddishkeit on a level as beautiful as her experience at our Mikvah.”
Rabbi Baruch Cywiak from the Mikvah USA organization commented: “Out of the 75 Mikvot that I was involved in building across the USA, this Mikvah in Columbus stands among the top 3 ever built, if not the nicest in terms of its sheer beauty.”
The Mikvah’s beauty has drawn a nonstop response from women all over the community, many of whom did not even know about Mikva before its opening.
“There is a board member at MOMA, (the Museum of Modern Art in New York) who, after seeing the Mikva shared that after years of traveling the world, has never seen a spa as beautiful as this,” Shliach Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann shared.
A first-time Mikvah user opened up about her experience, summing up the exact purpose of why the Mikva was built, “My perception of the Mikva has completely changed after using the new Mikvah at Chabad Columbus. Never have I felt so spiritually connected.
The person added, “The Mikva’s impact has drawn me closer to Judaism in a way I never expected. My kids have joined the Chabad Hebrew School for the first time and my family has never been so involved in Jewish life. I truly trace it back to the inspiration I felt using the Chabad Mikvah.”
Beautiful Mikvah…
Very difficult to build borr and halakic pool .
Is it side bor or below like Rashba?
שלום
This Mikva has two side booros (one for boor min hatzad and one for boor zriya) and also has a boor below like the Rebbe Rashaba
SO STUNING! GOOD JOBB!
Gorgeous work miriam ! Esther and aryeh this is one of the most beautiful mikvaos I have ever seen.
what a beautiful mikva to fulfill this beautiful mitsva
The Rebbe is proud. .keep up the great work
Keep up the amazing work Kaltmans! We love you and salute your ongoing sterling peulos and mosdos!
Your Brissy fans down under
WOW I’m so proud to be part of this mikvah.
Sorry that I missed the opening ceremonia.
Keep up your HOLY work.
Sorry to have had a conflict and not able to attend the opening. As the architect of record we are very grateful to work with and establish a wonderful friendship with Esther and Areyah. Many talents and hands were involved in its creation. Special thanks to Joshua McDowell of Central Ohio Construction Group for his perseverance throughout construction and Mikvah USA for their expertise. And a special thanks to the project’s senior design architect Thom Shapaka of F.A.Goodman Architects, without his vision this would not have taken shape. Although he will tell you that the initial heart to mind conversation… Read more »