Responding to Your Soul's Yearning: Choosing Judaism

This interactive workshop articulates the spiritual blessings of choosing Judaism as the soul’s path, provides a framework for exploring the journey to Judaism, and if that is the chosen path, shares the necessary resources for converting to Judaism. Spiritual blessings that Jews-by-Choice often identify include:

• ·      The sense of a caring community
• ·      Invitation to question
• ·      Rituals that bring you closer to a sense of the Divine
• ·      Practical activities that bring you closer to one another and the Divine
• ·      Spiritual principles that help one lead a good, ethical life
• ·      The work of healing the world
• ·      One God
• ·      Shabbat--a day out of time and daily stresses

Framework for a progressive process include:

• Locating a course of study
• Choosing mentoring rabbi
• Practical next steps
• Selecting a Jewish name
• What to expect from the Rabbinical Court and Mikveh