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The Etz Chayim Jewish Spiritual Center is your pathway to Teshuva and growing into a Jewish Spiritual Practice.
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Our Path
- Spirituality is where you and God meet and what you do about it.
- In classical Hebrew Jewish spirituality, there is only one world, that is simultaneously material and spiritual.
- Jewish spirituality is an approach to life in which we strive to become aware of God's presence and purpose in everything. It doesn't imply a removal from the everyday.
- Each time a Jew recites a blessing, they are basically saying, "Pay attention, something awesome is happening all around us." In this way you realize, again and again, that our everyday world is full of mysteries and wonder.
- We've never found a better way of finding out about God and coming close to God than by finding new meaning in the Torah and trying to understand its teaching.
- The main point we want to make is that Jewish spirituality is practical…If spirituality is about a deeper connection with God and you are literally God's helping hand, then your job spiritually is to repair what needs to be repaired in this broken world.
- By performing a deed that is counter-intuitive with the spiritual, by performing a material deed, it can bring you closer to God and change you. These Holy deeds are Judaism's way of realizing the holiness hidden everywhere, and a way of repairing creation.
We Believe
1. Belief in the existence of the Creator, who is perfect in every manner of existence and is the Primary Cause of all that exists.
2. The belief in G‑d's absolute and unparalleled unity.
3. The belief in G‑d's non-corporeality, nor that He will be affected by any physical occurrences, such as movement, or rest, or dwelling.
4. The belief in G‑d's eternity.
5. The imperative to worship G‑d exclusively and no foreign false gods.
6. The belief that G‑d communicates with man through prophecy.
7. The belief in the primacy of the prophecy of Moses our teacher.
8. The belief in the divine origin of the Torah.
9. The belief in the immutability of the Torah.
10. The belief in G‑d's omniscience and providence.
11. The belief in divine reward and retribution.
12. The belief in the arrival of the Messiah and the messianic era.
13. The belief in the resurrection of the dead.
Our Community
Judaism has a body and a soul. The two dance in harmony, in a wondrous union of seeming opposites. The soul finds expression through its embrace of the body, and the body comes alive through its fusion with the soul.
We call the body of Judaism halachah. Literally, that means “the way”—the way we live, the things we do, the things we are careful not to do.
We call the soul of Judaism Kabbalah, the hidden wisdom, inner Torah, and yet more names. All refer to the same tradition, a tree of life with ancient roots that has grown organically throughout many ages, nurtured by the insights of many sages, men and women who wrestled with the angels and with their own souls.
The body of Judaism cleanses and polishes the outer layers of the Jewish soul, allowing its inner light to shine through. The soul of Judaism, its spirituality, reaches the inner layers, igniting the Divine spark within. Together, the two dimensions of Judaism liberate the soul, allowing its suppressed love, wonder and innocent faith to break out into the light of day, infusing every thought, word and action with vibrant life.
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