Ten Things I Love About Being Jewish

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09/23/2018 | Rabbi Bonnie Koppell |

  1. Sense of Community

  2. Wisdom and Values

  3. Shabbat

  4. Connection to Tradition/Hebrew

  5. Brilliant Life-Cycle Practices

  6. Closeness to God through Gratitude and Prayer

  7. Life Long Learning

  8. Appreciation of Ritual

  9. Questioning as a Cultural Value

  10. Judaism as a Way of Life

  11. What’s on your list? Shanah Tovah!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IqpR_ED3Qw

    <1> “Jews are compassionate, the children of the compassionate. If a person is not compassionate, they are not of the descendants of our father Abraham.”- Beitzah 32b

    <2> Moses Maimonides, Hilchot Talmud Torah, 1:10