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	Baal teshuva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baal teshuva (baalat teshuvah for female, baalei teshuvah for plural) is a Hebrew term, translated literally as "master of repentance", or translated idiomatically as "one who has done repentance".
		The rise of Jewish pride came in response to the growth of the State of Israel, in reaction to the USSR's pro-Arab and anti-Zionist policies, and in reaction to the USSR's anti-Semitism.
		The return-to-Judaism movement was a spontaneous movement from the ground up; it came as a great surprise to the Soviet authorities, and even to the Jewish community outside the USSR.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baal_teshuva (2183 words)

	Secularization of Israelite Religion
		And next, the movement of returning to Orthodox Judaism (teshuvah) which emerged among young Jews in Israel land and in Diaspora communities during the late sixties and throughout the seventies is an important factor to be considered.
		Teshuvah is distinguished from the new religious consciousness by the movement of return and reversal which are at its very heart.
		For the response of this movement, according to her, in recent years, and for the first time in two hundred years, a significant number of people is demonstrating readiness to pass from the modern to the traditional context.
	www.ntsr.net /secularizat.htm (3347 words)

	Baal teshuva
		This movement also appeared in the former Soviet Union, which at that time had almost completely secularized its Jewish population.
		The return to Judaism movement was a spontaneous movement from the ground up; it came as a great surprise to the Soviet authorities, and even to the Jewish community outside of the USSR.Two of the young leaders were Yosef Mendelevich and Eliyahu Essas, now both prominent rabbis actively teaching other Russian emigres in Israel.
		One of the earliest pioneers of outreach to men and woman is Esther Jungreis[?], the founder of the International HINENI[?] movement in America.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Baal_teshuvah.html (1935 words)

	Haredi Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The predominant movement was socialism; other important alternatives were the cultural autonomists, including the Bund and the Zionists.
		These movements were not neutral on the topic of the Jewish religion: by and large, they entailed complete, not infrequently contemptuous, rejection of traditional religious and cultural norms.
		As with the nineteenth century Reform Judaism movement in Germany, the result was mutual recriminations, rejection, and harsh verbal attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ultra-Orthodox_Judaism (5299 words)

	Rabbi_2_3response
		By participating in the process of teshuvah the individual is reconnecting with his or her community, with God, and with his/her authentic self.
		Teshuvah is a continual process, which we have to initiate, but with which God helps us along the way.
		Only a person who deeply believes that what he or she is doing is finally the right thing to do, truly has the courage to bear the embarrassment and exposure that comes from admitting one's sins to another, especially to one who has been victimized by what we have done.
	www.franion.com /StarElul_pages/rabbi2_3response.html (607 words)

	Teshuvah - Ira Rosenberg
		Teshuvah is the use of conscious intention to move through these turning points of love and wisdom in the direction of tikkun olam.
		Teshuvah is not so much a movement from something as a movement towards something -- but that something is in the future.
		Where genuine teshuvah is made in a communal setting array upon array of a plenitude of paths diverge from the moment.
	www.mcjc.org /Mjoldart/MJAIR001.htm (1304 words)

	Belief in Moshiach Belief in the coming of the Moshiach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Not teshuvah as regret for the past, but teshuvah meaning, "You've done for us, and now we're responding to You." And that is the conclusion or the consummation of a relationship.
		In the past, when we had a great teshuvah movement it was because G-d performed the miracle and blew us away, and we were so inspired and so moved by it that we did teshuvah.
		The number of actual ba'alei teshuvah who return to observant Judaism compared to the number of Jews who are leaving, intermarrying, or who don't even belong to a synagogue, is minimal.
	hometown.aol.com /cling2treeoflife/moshiach.htm (5695 words)

	Baal teshuva - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Baal teshuva (or baal teshuvah for male, baalat teshuvah for female, baalei teshuvah for plural) is a Hebrew term, translated literally as "master of repentance", or translated idiomatically as "one who has done repentance".
		Torah Umesorah also sponsors the SEED Program whereby young Yeshiva students spend a few weeks during their summers teaching, this is likely modeled on the Chabad Lubavitch "peace corps" which are Yeshiva-student pairs that visit remote Jewish communities over the summers to help develop Jewish communities by teaching.
		In over 40 years, he trained about 5,000 young men and women to become rabbis and rebbetzins (a rebbetzin is a name for a rabbi's wife) as his personal emissaries all over the world, with the goal of attracting non-religious Jews towards a more intense religious life.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Baal_teshuva (2171 words)

	This Week's Torah Portion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A Western perspective, hesitant to make value judgments, encourages eschewing responsibility for past wrongdoing in order to "accept oneself." At the other extreme, the fundamentalist ba'al teshuvah movement often demands that regret become so dominant that the person's sense of self vanishes, to be replaced by a pale projection of some religious ideal.
		Teshuvah provides unity to the individual by transforming the life force that brought him to sin into an affirmation of moral life.
		Kook's teshuvah of enlightenment is the spiritual side of ego integration, which can occur at the end of life review.
	tiwestport.org /torah/5759/nitzavim.html (729 words)

	An Overview of the Baalei Teshuvah Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Much of the impetus for the outreach organizations came from the belief that the messianic redemption is "imminent." The resurrection of the Jewish commonwealth brought out a messianic fervor in some circles, as they believed that the "geulah" or redemption was near.
		Lubavitch was the first organization to organize a mass outreach and they probably have the most infrastructures for handling Baalei Teshuvahs (BTs) in terms of teaching, and accommodations.
		The BT movement is a relatively new phenomenon.
	www.rickross.com /reference/ultra-orthodox/ultra26.html (856 words)

	What Is to Be Done? - Torah.org
		In Hebrew, however, the corresponding word is teshuvah, and the concept is completely different.
		The word teshuvah derives from the root word shuv, which means return.
		According to Jewish tradition, teshuvah existed before the world was created and is integral to its ultimate redemption.
	www.torah.org /features/secondlook/whatdone.html (1300 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
		Chabad will be appealing for funds by skillfully using television, a medium that fewer and fewer of their Chasidim officially have in their homes — they might be hidden away in the closet or behind the sefarim, the holy books that are in the public spaces of a Chasidic home.
		Clearly, both of these movements are a response to the Holocaust and take the leitmotif of "from Holocaust to Redemption," "from Auschwitz to Jerusalem" that was prevalent in the narrative of contemporary Jews a decade of two ago.
		The ba’al teshuvah movement mirrors the born-again movement within Christianity, and is influenced by the same social forces and religious imperatives.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=12818 (1035 words)

	Jewish Revival: Where To From Here? - Jews for Jesus
		Adherents of this movement opposed the domination of Orthodoxy, especially the restriction of education to rabbinic studies and the avoidance of culture.
		Nor is the movement to be dismissed as a relic of the Jewish counterculture." Chaim Waxman cites a 1977 publication on havurot by Bernard Reisman of Brandeis University.
		The momentum of the ba'al teshuvah movement was not yet apparent when Strober made his assessment in the early '70s.
	www.jewsforjesus.org /publications/issues/6_1/jewishrevival (2420 words)

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		In the beginning years of the "teshuvah movement," it was not uncommon for parents to seek the guidance of professional "cult-busters" and "deprogrammers" in order to obtain the "release" of their children from yeshivos.
		Nowadays it is common for parents and friends of ba'alei teshuvah to visit and attend a few classes at the yeshivos and seminaries.
		Programs for ba'alei teshuvah offer classes that cater to people of almost any level and background, and the teachers are familiar with the type of questions asked most by an audience with a limited Jewish education and background full of Western values and pop culture.
	ohr.edu /special/books/atr/yeshiva.txt (2054 words)

	FORWARD : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In a move that some observers say threatens to rip apart one of America's largest synagogue denominations, the head of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism is calling on the movement's supreme lawmaking body to revisit its controversial ban on gay and lesbian rabbis.
		In an exclusive interview with the Forward, United Synagogue president Judy Yudof said that she was currently drafting a letter to the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, requesting that it review the current policy.
		The ban, which was formally instituted as a result of a 1992 "consensus document" approved by the law committee, is currently enforced at the Conservative movement's main rabbinical school, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and its Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism.
	www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.12.20/news1.html (1133 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s DID YOU KNOW? Responsa: Confronting Stillbirth: Jewish Ritual and Halakhah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		For the purposes of this teshuvah, "stillbirth" will be defined as the death of the fetus in utero after the point of viability or during delivery before the emergence of the head or the majority of the body.
		Underlying both the teshuvah approved by the CJLS requiring full mourning for a baby that dies within a month following birth and this teshuvah on stillbirth is a change in the halakhic presumption of infant viability.
		It is clear that in the case of a stillbirth, in contrast to a neonatal death, we do not have a halakhic mandate for shiva.
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/diduknow/responsa/hatesh_confront.shtml (3147 words)

	jspot » Blog Archive » Conservative Rabbinate (sort of) redeemed
		Today in Mexico City, the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement (of which I am a member) voted to pass a motion that will make it slightly easier for the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (aka the Law Committee) to ordain gay and lesbian rabbis.
		In an attempt to block the passage of this comprehensive teshuvah, the Executive Committee of the RA quietly passed a resolution last June that would require a teshuvah deemed to be a “takkanah” to receive twenty votes in order to pass.
		Presumably, most teshuvah authors will not designate their teshuvah to be a takkanah (thereby making it harder to pass) ; getting seventeen members of the Law Committee to define a teshuvah as such should also prove difficult.
	jspot.org /?p=19 (651 words)

	Haredi_Judaism
		They were joined in the 1950 by entire communities of North African and Middle Eastern Jews (especially from Morocco, Iraq, Tunisia, Yemen, etc.), who were kept marginalized and encouraged (in some cases, even forced) to forego their traditional cultures for the dominant European one.
		Taking the attitude that restoring Sephardic pride entails restoring Sephardic religious observance, Shas has created devoted cadres of newly religious and semi-religious men and women with the zeal of neophytes and an animosity toward the country's European political establishment and occasionally, by extension, to all things Western.
		Furthermore, the movement has gained unflinching obedience in its supporters to the teachings of it spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/haredi_judaism.html (5166 words)

	Josh Schreiber: Embodied Teshuvah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Through text, ritual, conversation, and Awareness Through Movement lessons, we will explore such themes as: embodiment in the Jewish tradition, what it means to see ourselves and others as being 'in the image of G-d', finding an embodied sense of acceptance and support from which we can effect change, and more.
		We call this change “teshuvah”, which, loosely translated, means ‘return’—traditionally referring to return to the ethical behavior and God, but also to living in spiritual harmony with God and the world in which we live.
		If we see teshuvah as first and foremost a turning and returning to the self, then there is nothing like the experience of embodiment—of coming to recognize yourself in your embodied existence—to return you to the here and now of the essential self.
	www.discover-yourself.com /elul.htm (947 words)

	teshuvot
		Teshuvah (plural teshuvot) means "response." Traditionally, the way Jewish law is formulated is that someone asks a question, and a rabbi prepares a teshuvah, a response.
		These opinions are Rabbi Leff's only, they have not been voted on by the Conservative Movement's Law Committee, and hence do not qualify as "official" positions of the Conservative Movement.
		Someone who considers himself a Conservative or Orthodox Jew should not rely on one of their teshuvot without checking with his rabbi first, but the teshuvot can still be interesting to study.
	www.tek-law.com /neshamah/teshuvot.htm (945 words)

	Modern Orthodoxy in America: Possibilities for a Movement under Siege - William B. Helmreich and Reuel Shinnar
		In reality, it is a movement that seeks to harmonize the secular and the religious in ways that are compatible with both.
		Theirs is a movement for the rationally persuaded that also reflects the norms of the dominant culture.
		The movement must also put much more pressure, financially and in terms of a public relations battle, upon Yeshiva University to reassert itself as the flagship of modern Orthodoxy.
	www.jcpa.org /cjc/jl-383-helmreich.htm (4401 words)

	USCJ: Nitzavim-Vayelekh
		Shuv, "return," is the verb from which teshuvah, the Hebrew term for repentance, is derived.
		The concept of teshuvah in classical Judaism combines both ideas, with emphasis on the latter.
		To use Soloveitchik's expression, the most essential aspect of teshuvah is that "the future has overcome the past." Ehud Luz, "RepentaWe seek teshuvah because in the Jewish tradition the aim of life is to grow in soul.
	www.uscj.org /NitzavimVayelekh6201.html (835 words)

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		Teshuvah in the original sense of the word: return, return to the source of all existence”.
		And thus Teshuvah, which is perhaps the most important Jewish contribution to all of humanity, remains in solitary confinement and no one is willing to redeem it.
		A school cannot presume to impart to its students a connection to our ancient wisdom if the teachers are not willing to take ownership of and responsibility for this wisdom.
	www.masorti.org /media/archive2004/09262004_h.html (910 words)

	Nathan Birnbaum
		Birnbaum eventually left the Zionist movement and later became a leading spokesman for Jewish cultural autonomy in the Diaspora.
		He stressed the Yiddish language as the basis of Ashkenazi Jewish culture and was chief convenor of the Conference on Yiddish held in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in 1908.
		Dissatisfied with the spiritual complacency of the religious masses, he initiated a movement, the Order of the Olim (“[Spiritual] Ascenders”), to consist of small groups of people dedicated by their way of living to raising spiritual awareness within the larger Jewish society, thus leading toward a Jewish spiritual renaissance.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Birnbaum.html (448 words)

	Community and Diversity
		Still, in the Conservative movement, law is changed or abrogated or reinterpreted primarily on a case-by-case basis.
		On Rosh Hashanah I had a conversation with Rena Dorph, who said that it seemed odd that the same word, teshuvah, the word used for repentance or returning, was also the word used for a response to a question (as in the Teshuvah I authored).
		The Talmud reasons: "Great is teshuvah for it brings healing to the world, and an individual who does teshuvah is forgiven and the whole world is forgiven with them." Such is the power each of us holds in our hands this evening.
	www.netivotshalom.org /drashot/rkelman/diversity.htm (11339 words)

	Belief in Moshiach \| Chabad.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Well, you describe it as a "mass" return but statistical studies of the Baal Teshuvah movement have claimed that numerically it is very small.
		And later, there was a movement to return to Judaism by their grandchildren, for example Buber, Scholem and Rosenzweig.
		For a long time, since the Enlightenment movement, Jews have been a little bit reticent on the subject of Moshiach because it was one area in which the enlightened Jew ridiculed the observant Jew's totally blind faith.
	www.chabad.org /library/article.asp?AID=2944 (5791 words)

	GedankenTravelExperiment: December 2004
		Jewish ba'alei Teshuvah make radical changes in their lives; so much so, that the institutions have often been compared to cults (though I would not endorse this too quickly).
		The modern "ba'al teshuvah movement" started as a manifestation of all the movements of the 1960's, spurned on by the 1967 taking of Jerusalem after Israel's Six Day War.
		But there is a new movement, that is just like the ba'al teshuvah movement, though it is not in Judaism.
	philosophicalkarl.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_philosophicalkarl_archive.html (3218 words)

	Wellsprings Articles - Reflections On The Baal Tshuvah Movement
		What kind of music would Mozart have written had he lived in the nineteenth century?) as well as the spectre of those other "movements" more typically associated with that time period: the peace/leftist political movement and the counterculture.
		Based on such observations, one psychologist has pointed out that in the counterculture "we were participants in a recreation of the great saga of personal and national redemption, for which Judaism, is the fundamental archetype....
		It should come as no surprise, therefore, that many of us who marched on Washington in 1968 or converged in Woodstock in 1969 would, by 1979, be sitting in yeshivos and learning Torah.
	www.e-wellsprings.org /Article.asp?Category=5&Article=18 (550 words)

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