The Instagram star and reality TV star flew last month for a family vacation in Italy with her husband Ariel and their eldest son Itai. In a post that received thousands of likes, she shared with her followers on the social network that this was the little baby’s first flight, and today (Tuesday), she chose to share a much tougher experience, which taught her a lot about herself: baptism night.
At the beginning of her words, she described that even before she arrived in Italy, she realized that she would have to be baptized during the trip, and asked the instructor to help her find a suitable mikveh. “A day goes by and there’s no answer. Another day and she’s still trying to find out, another day and another day. And I’m already starting to get stressed because there’s no way in the world that I’m not getting baptized and of course I don’t stop talking to the Creator of the world to help me find a solution.”
However, the efforts did not help, and the night before her baptism Kleinberg realized that there was no hope in all of Verona and she would have to be baptized in the sea. “Maybe I don’t look it, but in recent years I’ve been attacked by a really serious fear of the sea, the uncertainty of what’s going on under the water caused me to have an anxiety attack in the past and I wasn’t ready for it to happen again, especially since I know I have to take a dip at night. You don’t understand what thoughts I had.”
“Every baptism my husband tells me is kosher”
The elder even added that she consulted two rabbis, and they advised her to postpone the baptism in the morning since it is a danger to souls and to maintain modesty as much as possible. “On the morning of the baptism, we go out with the whole group and quietly take a taxi to the sea area, Ariel with Iti and me. As far to the side as possible, as modestly as possible. I walk barefoot into the water, wrapped in a towel while my husband looks at me and holds our Iti.
I go as deep as possible into the waters of my heart in prayers to the Creator that nothing will happen to me and that He will see how important this commandment is to me. I breathe deeply, close my eyes and dive. At every baptism my husband tells me kosher kosher kosher.
I never thought I would have to face such a challenge, but I knew with complete faith that I could do it. I didn’t know what was waiting for me – but I believed that it was a test and I was going to live up to it.”