Monday, November 2, 2009

The Mission

Our enviroment here in Poland is very specific. That's why Moishe House in Warsaw has a very unique mission here to do. Our community is very small to compare it with other cities. First of all, community is small and meaning of judaism here in Poland is something different. Jews in Poland are for common people a legend and are some people who where here in the past but now no one has seen them, and probably they don't exist. So our goal, besides our general aim which is our community, is to change that, to show people that WE exist. And here in Moishe House we have an opurtinity to meet with each other and create such a community, and make that kind of ideas which will change that.
But what really important is to understand that thing helps us as a whole group. To show others who we are is to really beleive in it ourselves. That's how Warsaw Moishe House is developing an idea of a whole organisation. And that's how perhaps should the whole organisation think. Because if we think about our mission as a goal to show ourselfs to others, then we will work harder on our community, our traditions, and many other things which makes us special. In terms 'others', not especially 'better'.
And right here, we're coming back to basics of MH organisation. Tikkun olam – that's the most important concept. This is, I think, besides Jewish Learning and Jewish Community, as a MH rules, thing that shows to us and to others, what is really important. To make our community bigger and stronger is to make ourselfs better people. And to make myslef better is to work on our enviorment in terms of people, community and traditions.

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