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For the most part, the stature and the preparation of these Tzadikim presuppose a balance that allows a peaceful coexistence even with those who have committed serious transgressions because otherwise, the intent to rage against them and, worse, to obtain advantages from them would certainly prevail.
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During the 1960s there was a movement among secular Israeli Jews that was essentially a search for spirituality. At the time, most Israeli parents were secular Zionists. While some Jews were hostile to traditional Judaism, a spiritual quest in the 1960s and 1970s caused some Israelis to seek answers
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Decades of indoctrination by the secular school systems and the media in Israel have failed to have any effect on the sense of identity which most Jews feel with Judaism—as recent surveys have shown. The masses have become aware of the emptiness—and the terror—of a purposeless, consumerist culture.
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The Israeli victory in the Six-Day War in 1967 ignited the pride of Jews in the Soviet Union, particularly in Russia. Suddenly there were hundreds of thousands of Jews wanting to go to Israel, although they dared not express their desire too openly. Several thousand applied for exit visas to Israel
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Appearing as an identifiable movement in the 1960s, a growing number of young Jews who had previously been raised in non-religious homes in the United States started to develop a strong interest in becoming a part of observant Judaism; many of these people, in contrast to sociological expectations,
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The people making this sweeping change in their life grew up in a secular world. They went to good colleges and got excellent jobs. They didn't become Orthodox because they were afraid, or because they needed a militaristic set of commands for living their lives. They chose Orthodoxy because it
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A baal teshuva movement has emerged with a significant number of Jews from non-traditional homes returning to the observance of grandparents and great grandparents. In fact one of the challenges facing modern Orthodoxy is that many of these returnees are attracted to a European
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1995 Page 113 "The Baal Teshuva movement addressed these same issues. Men and women attracted to Orthodox Judaism articulated a vision of renewed selfhood. M. Herbert Danzger, studying this phenomenon, commented on the affinity between the ideals of
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2009 Page 627 "It is important to note that although Renewal was fed by the Baal Teshuva movement (new returnees to Judaism) in the late 1960s ... The Baal Teshuva movement was a movement of disenchanted Diaspora and Israeli youth who turned back to
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The sages said: "The place whereon the penitent stand the wholly righteous could not stand;" as if saying: "their degree is above the degree of those who ever did not sin, because it is more difficult for them to subdue their passion than for the
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tried to channel that interest into a Jewish direction through his writings) and the spirit of youth rebellion that pervades US high schools and college campuses. It was in recognition of this phenomenon and in response to it that the earliest
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and the sway of the counterculture movement led many to abandon their religious upbringing, others were willing to experiment with alternate liberated lifestyles, and as part of this experimentation it was intriguing to them to explore Jewish
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As with all social movements, there is controversy and criticism. Early twenty-first century researchers have debated the "drop-out" rate from this movement and the reasons for it and new challenges that are now presented. From a 2005 paper:
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2009 p1 "Since the baal teshuva movement began in the 1960s, tens of thousands of Jews have become observant. The movement's effects were so noticeable by the 1980s that the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Baltimore Jewish Times,
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Whereas the earliest Baal teshuva trends were partly related to the prevailing anti-establishment atmosphere of the 1960s, it was an outcome of the great rise in Jewish pride in the wake of Israel's victory in 1967's
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specially designed for the newly religious students who wanted to devote time to intensive study of classical texts with the ancient rabbinic commentaries. These schools opened in the early 1970s, mainly based in
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that has been noted, researched and written about by sociologists, historians and Jewish thinkers since the 1960s when it came into the fore. The Baal teshuva movement, in its origins, was as much inspired by the
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In Israel, special schools developed for the newly-religious, who came to be called "Baalei teshuva" (m. plural), "Baal teshuva" (m. singular), a "Baalat teshuva" refers to a female, and "chozeret biteshuva" in
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Many Russian Jews began to study any Jewish texts they could lay their hands on. Foreign rabbis, often young students in Chabad Yeshivot, came on visits in order to teach how to learn Torah and how to observe
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movement from the ground up and was part of the refusenik movement; it came as a great surprise to the Soviet authorities, and even to the Jewish community outside the USSR and it eventually contributed to
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This movement among the Jewish people has produced a corresponding response from the various Jewish denominations and rabbis, particularly from Orthodox Judaism, which calls its response
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Mar b. R. Ashi said: I am disqualified to judge in a scholar’s lawsuit. What is the reason? Because I love him as much as I love myself, and a person is unable to find fault with himself.
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throughout Israel, and yeshiva programs for Israelis, Russians, French, and Americans, reach out to thousands. Followers of Chabad can be seen attending tefillin booths at the
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candles on Fridays. There are also Chabad houses in almost every location that Jews might be located, whether as permanent residents, on business, or tourists.
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reach out to as many different types of people as possible and encourage them to find ways of connecting to the congregation, and, through the synagogue, with
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are often linked together when discussing both the return of Jews to traditional Religious Judaism through the outreach efforts and the response to it.
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study. Many of these people adopted a fully Orthodox Jewish way of life, and although some eventually dropped out entirely or found their path within
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and Mendel Weinbach. Both of these rabbis had degrees from American universities and were able to speak to the modern mind-set. See also
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translates to 'returning to return' or 'returning to repentance'. Hence, a baal teshuva is a Jew who transgressed the
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and are now actively teaching other Russian emigres in Israel, aside from Kogan, who leads a community in Moscow.
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tried to channel the counterculture and its music into a Jewish direction through his music and teachings), the
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America's Alternative Religions By Timothy Miller, (academic research about the Baal teshuva movement) p. 113
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background who becomes religiously observant in an Orthodox fashion. There is no strict definition of a
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Cites her research that dropping out will occur if the newly-religious do not marry within five years.
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and so the concept can also encompass Orthodox-leaning Jews who become stricter in their observance.
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or other streams of Judaism, or even joined other faiths, others chose to remain with Orthodoxy:
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to hundreds of Jewish communities around the country and the world. Among the non-Orthodox, the
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movement grew, which was due in large measure to the joining of many intermarried couples.
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This yearning has taken on massive proportions as expressed in the baal teshuva movement.
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As a result, among the grassroots levels there is a deep yearning for spiritual values.
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in Russian), willing to suffer jail time to demonstrate their new-found longing for
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Encyclopedia of the Jewish diaspora: origins, experiences, and culture: Volume 1
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Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, large numbers of previously highly
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satisfied their need for intellectual stimulation and emotional security.
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and were instantly ostracized by government organizations including the
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The secret is out that Jews believe in God and that they have a Torah.
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The phenomenon has inspired a number of scholarly works. Among them,
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Site of Amnesia: The Lost Historical Consciousness of Mizrahi Jewry
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are considered the leaders of the baal teshuva movement in Israel.
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to religious Judaism. The term is used to refer to a worldwide
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Baal teshuva movement noted as part of growth of Orthodoxy (
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Contemporary American Judaism: transformation and renewal
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became attracted to observant Judaism within Orthodoxy.
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The baal teshuva movement also appeared in the former
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collapse of the Soviet Union and emigration to Israel
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New Age Judaism: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World
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Aliyah from the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states
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