The Eden Center, Immerse Yourself in Wellbeing
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Mission Statement
The Eden Center works to make the experience of mikveh relevant and welcoming, and use the mikveh as a springboard to promote and enhance the physical, emotional, spiritual and sexual health of Jewish women and families. We provide support and resources for lifecycle and crisis moments in the effort to educate, enrich and empower women in the Jewish community. Our flagship mikveh attendant training program combines knowledge about the Jewish legal obligations (halakha), with the medical and social-emotional aspects of immersion, training attendants to leverage their unique positions to spot signs of domestic abuse, mental health issues, anguish around infertility, and the ability to reach out a hand to women who are in need of support.
About This Cause
The Eden Center was founded in 2010 to educate, empower and advocate for women’s health and wellbeing through the ancient Jewish ritual of “mikveh,” and to connect women to resources of support within the Jewish community. Through our belief in the untapped potential of mikveh in Israel to act as an avenue for spiritual healing and care, we are driving a paradigm shift to turn the mikveh space into a central hub for women’s well-being that caters to a variety of physical, emotional, sexual and spiritual needs of Jewish women throughout the lifecycle. Our programming focuses on allowing mikveh immersion to be a positive and attentive experience that speaks to the needs of all Jewish women choosing to participate. In addition, we use mikveh as a platform for raising awareness about abuse and increasing knowledge about women's health issues and crisis interventions. Since the mikveh is used by women from across the socio-economic and religious landscape of Israeli society, we also see mikveh as a vehicle for promoting tolerance and inclusiveness and empowering women concerning issues of women’s health and well-being, including strengthening the female voice in the context of marital relationships. We work to cultivate and create a community that feels passionate about mikveh by adding our voices, making mikveh relevant, and recognizing and discussing the struggles surrounding this expressly female ritual. To date, our programs have reached over 19,000 women directly and another 92,000 indirectly. Our educational goals are attained through professional training programs, community programming, mikveh education and health advocacy. These take place throughout Israel in person and globally online, and our expertise is sought by communities globally. We also produce a variety of printed resources on topics related to the intersection of marriage, mikveh, and women's health, some of which have now been translated into 4 different languages.