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New Mikvah in Crown Heights!

Yesterday (Monday) evening there was a Kiddush and Chanukas Habayis for a newly renovated Mikvah in Crown Heights. Donated by the Rabkin family in memory of their father R. Meir Rabkin Z”L who’s Yortziet was yesterday the 27th of Kislev.

The Mikvah is scheduled to be opened when the ‘Otzar’ of rain water fills. The new Mikvah is located at 394 Kingston Ave. which is between Montgomery St. and Crown St.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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45 Comments

  • YSDBG

    Hats off to the brothers Rabkin for making the Rebbe’s shchunah beutifull. G-D should bless them “ad bli dai”

  • CH Resident

    My father was there, and was very impressed witht he technolgoies used, kol hakaovd to the Rabkin family. Thanks for making this community prettier!

  • Have been wondering

    On the subject of mikvahs.
    I find it disappointing that we as Lubavitchers work so hard making mikvahs beautiful and available all over the world, but, yet here in our daled amus, in the Rebbes’ Shchuna, we have a mikvah that women aren’t comfortable going to.
    I think it’s beautiful what the Rabkin brothers have done and yasher koach, but how long is it going to take until somebody makes it an issue on behalf of the women of Crown Heights??

  • BrookAve

    Nice tile job! This is a great start on making Kingston attractive. Next should be the ice cream shop where most of our Holy youth congregate. I’ll have chocolate chocolate chip in a sugar cone please. Why shouldn’t the Mikva hallway look like the lovely subway tunnels?

  • out-of-towner

    Maybe one of you should stop talking about it-like “who’s going to do the women’s mikva ?…” Why don’t one of you just get a group together and do it?If you think so strongly about something, then get it done. Whatever it takes.

  • It is lovely, but this is sad....

    why in the world was all that money given for a men’s mikvah??? There is no halacha for men to use the mikvah. The women should have a gorgeous inviting mikvah. Our priorties are so messed up.

  • letz act on it

    i agree!!! women should be able to have a luxurious mikvah to go to after alll they are the onez doing alll of the work in the house……we need it more than ever!!!! I am sure there are tonz of people wiling to donate towards this cause.

  • john

    what ideas are they coming up with to make the place accessible to a huge amount of people cheap cost and CLEAN!!!! keeping it respectably clean!!

  • my comment

    I’m very happy for the CH community and indeed it is a big mitzvoh for the family,but the entrance is mamash on Kingston Av??!!!!!!

  • david

    “just the mikvah looks very scary!?!? or like a train station?!?!”

    What would a beautiful article be without comments such as these! Let me know when you open your “perfect” mikvah. Lousy ungrateful “tomim”

  • stam a bochur

    Wow very nice. Hopefully this will enable many many more bochurim and anash to fulfill the rebbe’s directive of going to mikva every day. A very big yasher koach to the rabkin family and hopefully we can build many more mikvas like these all around the rebbes shchuna.

  • sr41

    does anyone know the times this Mikveh will open and close each day?

    and does anyone know how much it will cost? per day? monthly? etc.

    looks great!!
    thank you Rabkins!!

    P.s. I heard that the Rabkins are in the process of planning a new womens Mikvah to be built on Maple street, although, I don’t know how true this is.

  • Moshe

    A big Yasher Koiach to the Rabkin Brothers. They have donated of their time and money to build a beautifull Mikvah. We should all learn from this, and set an example to our children where our priorities shold be- Beautifull Mikvos, Shulls Etc.-If we do this you will find less problems with the youth.

  • anonomoous

    I think it is wonderfull that they build this beatiful mikvah for MEN in crown heights. but us women who going to the mikvah is the foundation of our marriage. We have to go to the only womens mikvah in ch that is a dump, and always overcrowded, and many women stopped going because of all of this… i think ch is in desprate need, not of a mens mikvah which there are so many of here already, but of a lady mikvah, and there are so many people who are willng to give to this cause.

  • BrookAve

    Maple Street for a Mikva sounds great. Think South everyone! That is the future! Midwood, Fennimore .. keep going!

  • To Anon

    I am so sick and tired of people complaining about the women’s mikveh. If you have the money it costs to renovate it and make it luxurious, then cough up the cash! If not, be grateful that we have a women’s mikveh which is by far NOT a dump, it may not be the Ritz, but for $12.00, what do you want?
    Think about all those Shluchos who have to dip in the sea each month, or fly to the closest town to go to Mikveh, and then Crown Heights may not seem so bad to you.

  • Mivtzah Taharas Mishpocha

    BTW Women There is more than one womans Mikvah in NY CITY

    check it out

    http://mikvah.org
    here is a short list
    Brooklyn
    Name: Mikvah: Kehilas Yaakov
    Address: 115 Rutledge Street
    Cross Streets: BETWEEN BEDFORD AVE & WHYTHE AVE
    City: Brooklyn
    State/Province: NY
    Postal Code: 11211
    Country: USA
    Supervision: PUPER HASHGACHA
    Shul/Org. Affiliation: KEHILAS YAAKOV
    Mikvah Contact Person: MRS. HAUER
    Mikvah Tel. #: 718 624 9262
    Alternate Tel. #: 718-387-3193

    MAP
    Name: Mikvah Of Canarsie
    Address: 1221 Remsen Avenue
    Cross Streets: BETWEEN FLATLANDS & AVENUE J
    City: Brooklyn
    State/Province: NY
    Postal Code: 11236
    Country: USA
    Supervision: RABBI GRUBER
    Mikvah Tel. #: 718 763 5902
    Alternate Tel. #: 718-763-6812

    MAP
    Name: Mikvah Israel Of Boro Park
    Address: 1574 58th Street
    Cross Streets: BETWEEN 15TH & 16TH AVENUES
    City: Brooklyn
    State/Province: NY
    Postal Code: 11219
    Country: USA
    Supervision: RABBI’S BICK, KATZ, GROSS, FRIEDMAN, SPIEGAL & ROTTENBERG
    Shul/Org. Affiliation: SATMAR, BOBOV ETC.
    Mikvah Tel. #: 718 871 0669
    Mikvah Type: MAAYAN

    MAP
    Name: Taharath Israel Of Flatbush, Inc.
    Address: 1013 East 15 Street
    Cross Streets: BETWEEN AVENUES J & K
    City: Brooklyn
    State/Province: NY
    Postal Code: 11230
    Country: USA
    Supervision: RABBI RUTTNER/ MAARIE YECHESKEL
    Schedule: N
    Mikvah Tel. #: 718 377 9813
    Mikvah Type: SIDE BY SIDE

    MAP
    Name: Sephardic Mikvah Israel
    Address: 810 Avenue S
    Cross Streets: BETWEEN EAST 8TH & EAST 9TH STREET
    City: Brooklyn
    State/Province: NY
    Postal Code: 11223
    Country: USA
    Supervision: RABBIS TRIEGER, RAFUL,
    Mikvah Tel. #: 718 339 4600
    Alternate Tel. #: 7186279311

    PHOTOS MAP
    Name: Mikvah: Congregation & Yeshiva Hamaor
    Address: 5010-12 18th Avenue
    Cross Streets: BETWEEN 50TH & 51ST STREET
    City: Brooklyn
    State/Province: NY
    Postal Code: 11204
    Country: USA
    Supervision: RAV OF SHUL
    Shul/Org. Affiliation: CONGREGATION YESHIVA HAMAOR
    Mikvah Tel. #: 718 633 7724

    MAP
    Name: Mikvah Israel Of Bensonhurst
    Address: 48 Bay 28 Street
    Cross Streets: BETWEEN 86TH STREET & BENSON AVENUE
    City: Brooklyn
    State/Province: NY
    Postal Code: 11214
    Country: USA
    Supervision: RAV BICK
    Schedule: BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
    Mikvah Tel. #: 718 372 9563

    MAP
    Name: Ritualarium Of E. Flatbush
    Address: 340 East 52nd Street
    City: Brooklyn
    State/Province: NY
    Postal Code: 11203
    Country: USA
    Supervision: HARAV BUKIET – RAV HAMACHSHIR
    Schedule: By Appointment Only
    Mikvah Tel. #: 718 771 5842
    Alternate Tel. #: 718-485-1600
    Notes: NOT ALWAYS IN USE

    MAP
    Name: Mikvah Taharah Of Seagate
    Address: 4511 Surf Avenue
    City: Brooklyn
    State/Province: NY
    Postal Code: 11224
    Country: USA
    Supervision: RABBI MEISELS
    Shul/Org. Affiliation: CHABAD OF SEAGATE
    Mikvah Tel. #: 718 946 4883

    MAP
    Name: Mikvah Israel Of Boro Park
    Address: 1351 46th Street
    Cross Streets: BETWEEN 13TH & 14TH AVENUES
    City: Brooklyn
    State/Province: NY
    Postal Code: 11219
    Country: USA
    Supervision: RABBIS BICK, KATZ, GROSS, FRIEDMAN, SPIEGAL & ROTTENBERG
    Shul/Org. Affiliation: COMMUNAL
    Mikvah Tel. #: 718 871 6866
    Mikvah Type: BOR AL GABAI BOR

  • DAUGHTER OF SARA

    i am a woman and used to live in Crown Heights. Now i’m on shlichus. the other woman is right, instead of complaining, form a comittee and get the mikvah done. Just because the Rabkin brothers took action doesn’t mean they have to do the same for you. YOU DO IT

  • crown heightser

    The women’s mikvah in CH is $15, which was the new fee as of last summer I think.
    Anyone who complains should put their money where their mouth is and do something. Otherwise, be thankful for the things we have.
    Eizehu Ashir Hasameach Bichelko.

  • an insider

    There was a committee of women who worked and are still trying to work on getting the womans mikvah redone but people who are willing to pay for anything dont seem to want to donate. These are hardworking devoted women who are doing it l’sheim shamayim but most on the committee cant afford to chip in much. As for the list of all the womens mikvahs around the new york city area, there is an inyan that women like to use the mikvah that the rebbe used. The union street mikvah is the original mikvah. If anyone knows anyone willing to donate to the cause they should contact the womens mikvah committee.

  • fair and balanced

    Solution to womens mikvah problem
    #1 Find suitable space(maybe on troy Ave
    across from the OK (drizzin property)
    #2 Fundraise (all donations go to mikvah)
    I think the Shluchim/Shluchos also need to donate towards this cause being they themselves are alumni,
    #3 Building needs to be built with some thought. for example numbers of mikvahs and rooms and staff and full security.
    #4 Operation and Management
    fund to pay staff and maintain the mikvah. Is $25 per dip to much to ask?
    considering what a meal at a restaurant cost.
    we need to sit down and get this done for our community!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Dave

    B”H

    For goodness sake! Put some pictures on the walls! The place looks stark and sterile! It looks more like a catacomb without a sarcophagus…..

    Dave

  • Hello

    Forget the way the way the crown Heights mikvah looks, some tznius rules are being violated on a nightly basis, and to who ever says its an inyan to use the same mikvah the Rebbe used, where is that written?

  • NEW to CH

    If ppl don’t want to pay more money for the mikvah or donate money for a new mikvah to be built, then they can not complain. Everyone is in the same situation. If you have Maaser that is building up and don’t know where to put it; the new mikvah is a good cause.

    I am donating $1,000 within the next few weeks towards a new mikvah.

    DO THE SAME AND IT’LL GET DONE. Doesn’t have to be $1,000. Every little bit counts.

  • BrookAVe

    To Dave: What type of art would you like to view in the 10 minutes average that you are there? I would like to see a screen with stock quotes and perhaps the current mazel tovs. The rest of the gossip I get during my ten minutes, and sometimes I stay longer if it is juicy.

  • Just wanted to say to all of you

    I don’t write a lot of comments, but this time will be an different. I just want to say to all of the guys that are building this Mikvah (the brothers rabkin and whoever is involved): it’s awesome. I’m sure you are giving the rebbe a lot of NACHAS.

  • Chaim

    I can’t even imagine how a negative comment could be posted regarding such a beautiful mikveh. Those responsible for building this should be blessed in abundance. I just hope it will be treated with respect by those who use it, and hope it will be maintained and not allowed to deteriorate from its exquisite beauty.

  • Chaim

    I can’t even imagine how a negative comment could be posted regarding such a beautiful mikveh. Those responsible for building this should be blessed in abundance. I just hope it will be treated with respect by those who use it, and hope it will be maintained and not allowed to deteriorate from its exquisite beauty.