Learn

Learning means personal development, acquiring knowledge and skills. Learning changes people, inspires them to act and opens up new worlds for them. Everyone can be a teacher and everyone should be a student. We promote a learning atmosphere and a learning environment in which everyone should find space for their thoughts and personal growth.

 

community and mutual responsibility

Limmud is a learning community. Together we can achieve more than individually. We get something from the community - Jewish and general. We also want to give something back.

 

Broaden the Jewish horizon

Limmud strives to provide a community experience that helps us to strengthen, develop, and give substance to our Jewish identity.

 

Create space for personal contact

We want to create spaces for groups and for individuals. We recognize the strength of a forum in which spiritual, emotional and intellectual exchange becomes possible.

 

participation

Volunteer work is the basis of what we do. We are responsible: for each other and for the communities we create. Everyone has an important contribution to make. We encourage all participants to help us with this and to make an active contribution themselves.

 

Encourage responsibility

We inspire people to be ambitious in their contribution to Limmud. We challenge people and trust them to do what they promise to do. We see the potential that lies in the individual and in the group and encourage its development. We empower people to make decisions and give them the information they need to do so. The strength and success of Limmud lies in each and every participant.

 

diversity

We value diversity in everything we do. We value choices: in form, content and style. We believe in the richness of our diverse community and enable encounters across group and generational boundaries. We encourage meeting people without prejudice.

 

respect

Limmud expects all participants to treat each other with respect and to remember that all helpers are also participants. Personal attacks during the workshops will not be tolerated.

 

Arguments for arguments sake

Limmud does not rule on the admissibility of particular religious or political positions that exist within the global Jewish community. Limmud will not offer a forum to anyone who hopes to have an attitude declared illegitimate. Limmud takes no position in the debates held during the festival. Limmud will coordinate its program in such a way that religious or political conflicts are avoided. Nonetheless, we recognize that arguments can help us understand each other better.

 

following religious commandments

Shabbat and Kashrut are observed in all public places. However, Limmud does not prescribe how participants should behave privately. Participants who want to pray have to bring what they need with them and take responsibility for the entire prayer group.