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Jews who are deeply engaged in traditional language and practice, knowledgeable in their textual heritage, and open to the wider world have the power to alter the course of contemporary Jewish life. They may never be the majority in the Jewish community, but they have the potential to engage the majority of Jews in a deep way.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
“Do you think that I am offering you authority [serara]? I am offering you the chance to serve [avdut]” (Horayot 10a–b). As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve.”6
Jonathan Sacks • Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 8)
Jewish Life
Yehezkel Lipinsky • 4 cards
If a reflective life is meant to be more than just affirming our existing beliefs, then Torah provides the opportunity to engage with life more fully.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
“A good neighbor [is paramount]!”
Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson • Positivity Bias
The sum of the Rabbis’ educational and halachic efforts was that participation in religious life was democratized.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
we have to distinguish between the social space of Kiddush and the prayer space of a service.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
through which he is best known to tradition: Moshe Rabbenu, the leader as teacher. Leadership is not a gift with which we are endowed at birth. It is something we acquire in the course of time, often after many setbacks, failures, and disappointments.
Jonathan Sacks • Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 8)
the foundational Jewish act: recognizing the one divine source of all of creation.