Apart+from+Nothing+Study+Guide

We invite you to continue our learning with Rabbi Margolius by considering these questions and their implications for your work. 


 * Educators: **


 * What most resonated with you?
 * What are you doing to provide opportunities for personal narratives?
 * What are the differences between communal vs. personal truths?
 * What is the picture of the Jewish future this portrays?
 * What (in the article) resonates with you?
 * What stands apart and why?
 * Where is your school on the continuum of this process?
 * Rosenzweig text: What are the things that your Institution does that are important to the congregants?


 * Lay People **
 * Identify the sentence that most resonated with you.
 * How do you understand the fragmentation referred to in the article?
 * How do you understand the wholeness he is describing?
 * What ways/parts of your life do you experience fragmentation? … experience wholeness/oneness?
 * In what ways do you experience fragmentation in your synagogue? … wholeness/oneness?
 * What is happening in this community/synagogue that you experience as important/significant? What was meaningful about it?
 * What are you yearning for in your life/family? … in the synagogue? What would you do to achieve it?


 * Clergy **
 * Where do you personally begin? How do you connect into this?
 * How might your educator read and understand this text?
 * How would you weave this into your work in “disparate aspects” of your community?
 * What does this look like? Give examples of integration.
 * What do you do after the integration to continue the effects and work?
 * How do we construct experiences that get to this integration?
 * What needs to go into the experience?