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Source sheets for teaching about the importance of belonging and how it operates in Jewish community. These sources and approaches are part of Clal's Belonging Project. You can bring The Belonging Project's workshops and trainings to your own synagogue or Jewish community by contacting Rabbi Julia Appel, Clal's Senior Director of Programs and creator of The Belonging Project, at [email protected].
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Clal's Belonging Project: Sources on the Importance of Belonging
These are some foundational texts showing the Jewish tradition's teaching about the need for belonging in Jewish community.
Clal's Belonging Project: Needed: Making Space for Gift
This text study focuses on why we need each person’s contributions in order to build community. What might the spiritual narrative of building the mishkan, the portable tabernacle in the desert, teach us about how to build spiritual community today?
Clal's Belonging Project: Known: Friends and Teachers
This text study focuses on the ingredients of deep friendship. What does it mean to know another person deeply? What do we gain when we have someone looking out for us? Does friendship mean we always agree?
Clal's Belonging Project: Named: What's In A Name?
This source sheet explores some ways in which the Jewish tradition understands our names -- how we get our names, different names we are called, when we might change our names, and the importance of our names.
Clal's Belonging Project: Noticed: Looking Deeper
This text study looks to several of our Biblical leaders - Abraham, Sarah, and Moses - to learn about the personal qualities demonstrated by noticing others, by empathizing with their perspective, and by turning to look at the miraculous around us.