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A synagogue is a place where people
who already know each other become friends. |
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A synagogue is a place where parents rediscover
themselves through their children and children discover
themselves through their past. |
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A synagogue is a place where holiness can be conjured
up, week in and week out, by anyone who seeks it. |
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A synagogue is a place where grown men and women
will stay out in the sun for hours to get a sukkah
built. |
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A
synagogue is a place that sometimes feels more
like home than home does. |
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A synagogue is a place where books are kissed,
scrolls are hugged, and trophies are ignored. |
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A synagogue is a place where everyone grows. |
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A synagogue is a place where they treat you like
family, whether you want them to or not. |
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A synagogue is a place where time doesn't synchronize
well with the rest of your life, where values don't
mesh perfectly with the rest of your life, where
customs don't fit neatly with the rest of your life,
where you wrestle with the rest of your life. |
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A
synagogue is a place where people who can't pronounce "tsedakah" practice
it regularly. |
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A synagogue is a place where people bring enough
food to feed an army, then eat it all up so no one
will feel their cooking wasn't appreciated. |
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A synagogue is a place you can say you're from
when you're volunteering at shelter or Habitat for
Humanity. |
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A synagogue is NOT a place. It is a delicate web
of needs, talents, and sacrifices, holding it's own
in an unforgiving world, and thereby helping all
its members to hold their own. |
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