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Why I Got Naked and Jumped Into the Ocean Before My Wedding
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This would be our plan: I would gather my closest girlfriends and we would meet at the Venice Beach Pier at 9 PM. I was instructed to bring blankets, towels, warm clothes and a nightgown -- I would be getting naked in the ocean. I would be freezing my tuchus off under the moonlit sky. I love this woman...
Slowly we found unison in our voices and a sense of calm came over us. Rabbi Lori gently took me aside and told me to walk toward the sea, dunk my body and head in the dark water, remove my nightgown, recite the prayer she whispered to me and express whatever I wanted to the vast ocean and sky. I entered the water and, to my surprise, felt its warmth surround me.
I recited the prayer, took off my nightgown and began to confess my most personal thoughts, secrets and fears. My heart was pounding. Exiting the ocean, I glided back to my friends, who wrapped me in blankets, held me, and told me they loved me as they continued to sing. I wept like a baby. I felt I was now inside a new kind of womb, one just as holy but whose entrance was not held by the rigidity of the likes of Mariam Feldman. I was creating my new tribe.
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