Getting Started
Getting Started
Getting Started
Seven simple, inspiring ways to share the beauty and wisdom of our heritage.
• Introduce them to inspirational websites, downloads, films and articles
• Love your neighbor and be a friend. Call, send a gift or go out for a coffee!
• Invite them to experience shabbos, or connect them with a family who can.
• Use books, tapes, CD's and more to encourage them to read and discover.
• Show them the wisdom that Torah principles bring to relationships.
• Excite them, by sharing what excites and inspires you about Torah.
Nine out of ten Jews are unaware that Judaism will make their lives more pleasurable and meaningful.
Here are seven simple, inspiring ways to share the beauty and wisdom of our heritage.
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N-URTURE
S-HABBOS
P-UBLICATION
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R-ELATIONSHIP
E-XCITE
Excellent user-friendly Jewish websites abound. From the Kotel camera, where you can watch the Western Wall 24 hours a day, to audio downloads, films, and fascinating articles - all are easily accessible.
Suggest visiting: Aish.com, Torah.org, or simpletoremember.com
- Give people an Aish.com card (Click here to order)
- Tell them that they can visit the Western Wall live at Aish.com/wallcam (Click here for cards.)
- Send them an insightful email from Aish.com
- Send them a one-minute video from Aish.com
- Send them to classicsinai.com (free audio of great speakers)
The essence of Judaism is, "V'ahavta l'rayacha k'mocha," love your neighbor as yourself. The most significant way you can reach out to our fellow Jews is by showing them that you accept them unconditionally, and that they mean something to you. Take the time to listen and to be a friend.
- Send them a gift for an upcoming holiday.
- Go out for a cup of coffee with them.
- Call someone on the phone with no other agenda than to ask how they are, listen and really care.
- Invite them to a meal at your home whether during the week or on Shabbat.
- Think what they enjoy or need and help them get it.
In today's fast paced world, people don't often find time to sit down for a meal with their own families and appreciate those they love the most, or get a break from the rat-race and think about life, let alone get time to sing, enjoy and discuss meaningful insights. The warmth, love and serenity of Shabbat are possibly the most profound way to touch the heart.
- Invite someone for a Shabbat meal to your home.
- Go with him to someone else's home.
- Connect him with a family or outreach organization in his area (call 1-800-SHABBAT).
- When asked "how was your weekend?" share the pleasure of Shabbat ... "I just don't know what I'd do without it!"
- Send them an article from Aish.com/Shabbat
Give people an interesting book about Judaism (Click here for recommended book list.) [link to book list page we're going to make]
Inspire with a tape or cd. (Click here for recommended tapes.)
Give someone a user-friendly pocket wisdom card, or just leave a few in your on your desk.
Encourage others to visit or learn in Israel. (Click here to watch a short film on the importance of sending people to Israel.) Hundreds of thousands of young men and women have had their lives transformed by an awesome Israel experience -- hiking the land, visiting the ruins, and learning about their heritage in any one of the myriad of Israel's subsidized learning programs.
For more information go to Goisrael.org or Aish.com/progsisrael; call 1 800 - FELLOWS; email jf@aish.com
Share a Torah insight on relationships. Most people are unaware of the incredible depth of wisdom that the Torah has to offer on subjects of love, dating, marriage, and relationships. Hundreds of audio files, books, speakers and seminars are also available.
- Share your own Torah insights on relationships with them (...read up first if necessary!)
- Give people a book on dating and marriage. (Click here to see book list.)
- Email (or print and give) a friend one of the wonderful dating, marriage or parenting articles from Aish.com.
Explain what you love about Judaism. Nothing is more powerful than words spoken from the heart. Whether you are touched by prayer, the beauty of the Jewish family, the joy of Shabbat, learning Torah, community life, Israel or your relationship with God, there is no other better way to touch another Jew's soul than to share your own thoughts, feelings and experience.
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(1) faigy jacobs, Aug 09, 2011
kiruv is our responsobility
the project inspire articles and videos are amazing and truly inspire me but i really was not sure where to start. after watching rabbi solomon and many of the other rabbis i realized just how easy kiruv can be. i realized it is not about what you do or do not know but about reaching out to a fellow jew who wants to know and deep inside is feeling empty and lonely. it is our responsibility to reach out and help pull klal yisroel together.