Judaism stresses education as the essential tool for gaining the ability to take responsibility for the world. You can’t represent the Jewish people unless you know what the Jewish people represent. Ignorance is our biggest enemy. Ignorance causes not only assimilation, but an inability to fulfill the Jewish mission individually and nationally. The Torah provides this education.

Jewish education instructs how to become a model for the world, a "light unto the nations." Learning Torah will help put you on that path.

BE A LIGHT

The root cause of the world's problems is a lack of values. If the world were full of people who believed and lived by the value of life, peace and harmony, justice and equality, education, family, social responsibility and love, just think of how different the world would be! Be a light by living for the values you stand for. Then, each and every one of us can serve as a model for our fellow human beings.

JEWISH UNITY

No matter how much we improve ourselves and grow toward our own potential, we cannot change the world by ourselves. We must realize that every Jew is part of a whole. Klal Yisroel - the Jewish people. We're all responsible for each other. Every Jew is a piece of an incredibly powerful puzzle that together creates an entity, the Jewish People. Tikun Olam, perfecting the world, is collective - it is too big to do alone.

  There's an Israeli folk song that says: "Each of us is one small light but together we shine bright." As a "light to the nations," the Jewish People can shine forth with the beauty of Jewish ideas and values. When that happens, the whole world will say: "That's the way we want to be." Without mutual respect and Jewish unity, it is impossible to achieve this goal.

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