{"id":406,"date":"2016-05-13T20:50:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulanuarchive.kulanu.org\/?p=406"},"modified":"2019-04-08T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:36:18","slug":"madagascar-update-a-perfect-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/madagascar-update-a-perfect-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar Update: A Perfect Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a perfect day. It was the day of the long awaited trip to the Mikvah, completing the conversions\u00a0that had been the\u00a0object of such arduous rabbinic labor. The community leaders had after\u00a0much toil found the perfect spot. So we got\u00a0up early and made our way to the local bus station. It was a chaos of commerce and clamor as trucks the local mini-buses taxis and pedestrians clogged the narrow streets. We were happy to see a small fleet of these vans waiting\u00a0for\u00a0us along\u00a0my with our Malagasy friends.<\/p>\n<div>We left the\u00a0city and dove through the beautiful countryside past hilltop villages crowned with church steeples and local windowless cottages topped with thatched roofs, along with lovely homes, we passed rice paddies and\u00a0busy market towns, and people going about their\u00a0business walking to destination unknown to us. After around an hour and a half we turned off the two lane road to a\u00a0well potholed unpaved track\u00a0that\u00a0ran alongside a beautiful river.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After several miles we reached our destination, a particularly beautiful spot on the riverbank. A small tent like enclosure had been set up, it reached into the water so that the candidate could disrobe in the enclosure and immerse in the river water with completely privacy. The Men went in first\u00a0they lined up outside and one by one entered the enclosure where the three\u00a0Rabbis of\u00a0the Bet Din witnessed their\u00a0immersion, one of the Rabbis stayed in river water the entire time to reassure and assist the candidates. The woman followed the same procedure except that their immersion was supervised by a\u00a0\u201dMikvah lady\u201d who certified to the Rabbis that the immersion was done properly.\u00a0After several hours all of the men, women and children reentered the bus transformed into full fledged Jews ready to take there place in history.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-Rabbi Gerald Sussman<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_2029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2963 \" src=\"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_2029-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"The small tent which enabled privacy during the conversion.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The small tent which enabled privacy during the conversion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a perfect day. 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