Members of Hawaii’s eclectic Jewish community will celebrate the construction of Honolulu’s first kosher ritual bath.

The Sunday party will take place at the site of Mikvas Batsheva, named in memory of Batsheva Rotenstreich, mother of Chabad-Lubavitch director Pearl Krasnjansky and grandmother of its Hebrew Day School administrator Sari Tilson.

The women behind the project termed the construction of the bath, a vital component of Jewish family life, as a revolution in Jewish observance in the Pacific chain of islands.

“For millennia, mikvah has played a crucial role in the continuity and purity of the Jewish nation,” wrote Krasnjansky and Tilson to community members. “Our foremothers risked life and limb to observe this unique and holy mitzvah, which has served to safeguard the distinctive quality of the Jewish soul and the Jewish home.”