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Looking for High Holiday Advice
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Gershon Fern Aug 13, 2010.
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- Kiruv Background:
- Non-Professional Experienced
- About Me:
- I live in a small community just outside of Manhattan and am looking for ways to reach out to Jews in this area.
- What I do for parnassa:
- I have been working in Jewish non-profit for the last years and just switched gears a few weeks ago to work with the elderly doing case management and counseling.
- City and State:
- Sunnyside, NY
- Types of Kiruv I Enjoy:
- Jewish Engagement!
- I am available to help others with:
- Program Ideas!
- I could use advice about:
- Prayer services, and getting community members from your shabbat dinner table into the shul without scaring them away.
The Top Ten Benefits of Doing Kiruv (Source: "Putting Out the Fire," by Aharon Ungar)
1) Working with somebody who is learning from the beginning causes you to examine your own performance of mitzvos.
2) Kiruv reignites your connection with Hashem.
3) Kiruv enhances your appreciation for the Torah community.
4) By bringing Hashem's lost children home to Him, you earn Divine gratitude.
5) Kiruv builds a constant, ongoing source of merit for Olam Haba.
6) Kiruv causes you to focus on spiritual issues you may never have contemplated.
7) You will have an opportunity to relearn many things you have forgotten.
8) You will have the incomparable feeling and spiritual benefit of saving someone's life.
9) Kiruv fulfills four halachic imperatives.
10) You can attain all these benefits within the context of your present life and schedule.
2) Kiruv reignites your connection with Hashem.
3) Kiruv enhances your appreciation for the Torah community.
4) By bringing Hashem's lost children home to Him, you earn Divine gratitude.
5) Kiruv builds a constant, ongoing source of merit for Olam Haba.
6) Kiruv causes you to focus on spiritual issues you may never have contemplated.
7) You will have an opportunity to relearn many things you have forgotten.
8) You will have the incomparable feeling and spiritual benefit of saving someone's life.
9) Kiruv fulfills four halachic imperatives.
10) You can attain all these benefits within the context of your present life and schedule.
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