Just as rain comes down drop after drop and eventually forms streams, so with the Torah;
A person learns a little Torah each day, and soon he/she becomes like a mighty river.
Midrash Song of Songs Rabbah
At Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach we encourage everyone to commit themselves to an engagement in lifelong Jewish Learning. Temple Emanu-El’s Center for Jewish Learning provides a point of entry for everyone seeking the excitement of Jewish study in a community of committed, caring learners studying with dedicated, knowledgeable teachers.
Jewish learning is a joy, one which should not be missed. We look forward to taking this journey with you!
Jewish things to do while you’re alive...
Jewish Education is more than just learning from a book. It involved learning from exeriences - Jewish experiences. Listed below is a list of some Jewish experiences you might want to put in your life when the time is right. Which, of course, is now!
Read the entire Tanach.
Pray at The Wall.
Experience Mikvah.
Stay up all night on Shavuot learning Torah and eating ice cream.
Watch a sunset in Tzfat as Shabbat begins.
Learn to tie Tzitzit and make your own Tallit.
Do Hagbah (especially if you are a girl).
Go Israeli folk dancing.
Make friends with a Palestinian Arab.
Learn Hatikvah by heart.
Serve food in a soup kitchen.
Say the Shehechianu after kissing someone you love.
Keep kosher for a week…a month…a year…
Go to services in a foreign country where people speak a different language, and pray together in Hebrew.
Build a Sukkah and sleep in it.
Lay on your back looking up at the ceiling of the Horb Synagogue in the IsraelMuseum.
Buy a meal for someone who is homeless and eat with them.
Learn a nigun by Shlomo Carlebach and sing it in the shower.
Cry during Ne’ilah.
Float in the Dead Sea at night.
Carry and dance with the Torah on Simchat Torah.
Climb Masada at dawn.
Walk to shul on Shabbos.
Make Gefilta Fish from scratch.
Invite someone home for Shabbat dinner.
Eat a falafel “with everything.”
Give a donation in cash.
Introduce yourself using your Hebrew name.
Call your mother.
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