All Comments on 'Sarah's Old Fashioned Love Poem'

for a daughter of Jerusalem

who worked the vineyards, burnt by the sun .....

my Old Testament came alive in these lines GM but your other allusions threw me ......

If you're referring to the mikvah, Ash, it's a congregational bath common in Orthodox Judaism and worth a Google search. I'm not dogmatic myself, but I think we sometimes fail to see some of the beauty that orthodoxy can spawn.