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- Kiruv Background:
- Professional
- About Me:
- They call me the Rugby Rabbi because I started my journey to becoming a baal teshuva at the Maccabi Games in Israel playing rugby for South Africa. After getting semicha at Ohr Somayach in Yerushalayim, I moved with my family to Chicago to work for the Chicago Community Kollel. Then in 1985 after seeing the amazing Maimonides program at U of M, I started a campus kiruv organization. Almost 3 years later, we have students from 9 different schools and recently hired Rabbi Shalom Garfinkel.
- What I do for parnassa:
- full time kiruv professional
- City and State:
- Chicago, IL
- Types of Kiruv I Enjoy:
- Campus
- I am available to help others with:
- any advice on how to reach out to fellow Jews.
- I could use advice about:
- follow up
- Website:
- http://jeteam.com
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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