Mikvah – Ritual Immersion
Jewish law requires that one immerse in a mikveh as part of the process of conversion to Judaism. It also requres women to immerse before getting married and when observing…
Jewish law requires that one immerse in a mikveh as part of the process of conversion to Judaism. It also requres women to immerse before getting married and when observing…
He purified his body with the water from the sacred ponds, and he purified his soul with the holy water of virtue.
And then came Jesus from Galilee to Jordan, unto John, to be baptized of him. But John refused him, saying, I have need to be baptized of you, and why…
Whenever Mother Mary got a moment to spare she liked to be busy in her garden, watering her flowers and planting out vegetables. Jesus had always wanted to help her,…
The time came to take Siddhartha to the temple of the Gods. By the king's command, the streets of the city and the public squares were superbly decorated; drums were…
And it came to pass after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, and they were hearing him and asking him questions. and all who heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. And when his parents saw him, they were amazed.
She was very beautiful. It was as if the Goddess Lakshmi herself had strayed into the world. When she spoke, it was like the song of birds in the spring,…
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is the…
...For he is born, he who gives happiness: he will bring happiness into the world. In the darkness a great light has dawned, the sun and the moon are like dying embers, for he is born, he who gives light: he will bring light into the world. The blind see, the deaf hear, the foolish have recovered their reason, for he is born, he who restores sight, and restores hearing, and restores the mind: he will bring sight, he will bring hearing, he will bring reason into the world.
Everyone now delighted in bringing him precious gifts. They gave him toys that would amuse a child of his age: tiny animals, deer and elephants, horses, cows, birds and fish,…