by greenmountaineer
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.
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 ......