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In Rabbi Buchwald's own words:

"What’s the effectiveness of the Beginners Service? Why is the Beginner Service so effective that we had literal statistics at Lincoln Square

Synagogue that if a person goes eight times in a row—that’s all you need, two

months—if people go eight times in a row, two out of three of them will become…

More inspiration from Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald:

“We have to conduct ourselves like a business, to be organized, efficient and focused on reaching our market. But we

must always remember that outreach is not about business, it's about neshamos,

souls. The Gemara in Sanhedrin 37a

teaches us…

To pick up where we left off in our last post, Rabbi Buchwald continues:

“How can one impact a large number of people to change their stereotypical attitude towards Orthodoxy? We had tremendous siyata

diShmaya. Natalie Gittleson wrote an

article, which ended up appearing in the Sunday Times…

Don’t expect immediate success. Kiruv takes time. Often, you invest money, resources

and people power for months and your programs are just hanging in there. Growth seems elusive. Don’t give up! If you follow the advice in

this blog, given time and consistent effort, you will be successful.

Here’s more…

Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald is one of the most successful mekarvim in modern times. He invented the Beginner’s Service and the idea of Crash Courses in Hebrew Reading, Jewish History, etc, while

at Lincoln Square Synagogue in New

York. He has

real data that if someone attended his Shabbos Morning Beginner’s Service eight

times in a row, two out of three people ultimately became shomer mitzvos. You…

the work and get the project done. Advisors are people who have experience and knowledge that can be beneficial to the team, but don’t have time to do the actual work or have no interest in doing the actual work.

Sitters are the people…

When you make your presentation to the Board, or if you are the one who will first broach the subject of the shul getting involved in kiruv with the Rabbi and President, it would be a good idea to do a bit of research to get some kind of an initial idea of the amount of funding your program will require. Often, that is the determining factor for a shul to go forward with anynew program. Truthfully, you can get started with no money at all,…

Committees can be great and committees can be awful. But you need a committee so that no one person—presumably your champion—tries to do it all him or herself and soon gets so overwhelmed that the entire program has to be scaled back or canceled. Better to have a team of committed people working together, each with specific responsibilities.

As…