Sublime

rabbis as teachers are in critical demand. And after a year running Hadar, I knew that my life’s focus was not only to build one specific community but also to spread the model of Empowered Judaism.

From earliest rabbinic times there were such institutions as the tamchui, or mobile kitchen, which distributed food daily to whoever applied,

in the twenty-first century—a Judaism that has been undersold and watered down. It is a Judaism where those who know its beauty are often unable or unwilling to connect to the larger Jewish community, and those on the front lines of the welcome wagon to Judaism have little skill or facility with Jewish texts to elucidate their beauty to others.

a dream of an intensive, passionate Torah environment for laypeople.

The sum of the Rabbis’ educational and halachic efforts was that participation in religious life was democratized.

They want to learn Hebrew, but there are not enough high-quality Hebrew classes. They are interested in basic Jewish knowledge but are unable to connect to synagogues. The Jewish community does not have the teachers and the leaders who can step forward to meet this need.

The options are these: become an academic, a rabbi, or Orthodox.

Daf Yomi, the “world’s largest book club,”