BaDerech envisions Beth El as a congregation in which all members are actively engaged in a process of exploring our Jewish journeys and striving to live the words of the v'ahavta (Deuteronomy 3:5-7 as shown to the right) - to fully live and express a Jewish life when you sit in your home and when you walk on your way – by creating seamless connections between our expressions of Judaism in our personal homes and Beth El, our communal home.
BaDerech works to achieve the vision by:
- Helping congregants identify where each of us is on our Jewish journeys and how our Jewish journeys are expressed both in our personal and communal homes.
- Providing opportunities for congregants to guide and be guided by one another as an integral component of our ongoing Jewish journeys.
- Developing programming that provides opportunities to deepen our connection with Judaism and more fully live the words of the v'ahavta.
- Seeing our personal and communal Jewish journeys within the framework of Jewish time, the cyclical flow of the Jewish calendar including Shabbat and holidays. We work toward this goal by providing resources to deepen our understanding of our Jewish journeys, with an emphasis on how our Jewish lives intersect with the flow of Jewish time.
Congregation Beth EL is in it's fourth year as a recipient of the Legacy Heritage Innovation Project Grant which has funded the development of BaDerech: On Our Way
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