Responding to Your Soul’s Yearning: Choosing Judaism

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES. PLEASE REGISTER FOR ONE OF THE OTHER SESSIONS:

April 25 at Leo Baeck Temple

April 29 at Shomrei Torah

This interactive workshop articulates the spiritual benefits of choosing Judaism as the soul’s path and provides a framework for finding the necessary resources for converting to Judaism. We will discuss such spiritual benefits as:

• The sense of a caring community
• Invitation to question
• Rituals that bring you closer to a sense of the Divine
• Practical activities–doing–that bring you closer to one another and Divine
• Spiritual principles that help one lead a good, ethical life
• Goal of healing the world
• One God
• Shabbat–a day out of time and daily stresses
• A framework for a progressive process will include:

1. Locating a course of study
2. Choosing mentoring rabbi
3. Practical next steps
4. Selecting a Jewish name
5. What to expect from the Rabbinical Court and Mikveh

Participant will leave with a gift bag that will enhance Jewish practice.

All are welcome especially those interested in formalizing their Jewish identity and those who have a family member who may be considering this path.