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Why we joined Bet Alef...
My husband and I had been looking for a synagogue in the Seattle area. He hadn't
been to synagogue since his Bar Mitzvah, although I had been going regularly
in California, he was not into it.
I came the first time by myself. Came late. Sat in back, left right away. Loved it! Went home and told my husband I had found a place he would like. I don't know when we returned, probably not long after, and he did love it. I did too, and so instead of going to movies, we started going to services. The more we went, the more we liked the place and the people. Why did we join? Come on...Something this special is worth being a part of, making a commitment to, supporting, both by our physical presence and by our pocketbooks. Why I joined Bet Alef... When I discovered Bet Alef (which happened coincidentally to be the very first service by Ted in Seattle!) I left feeling as if I had come "home." The Judaism that this Rabbi was teaching, was the Judaism that I had always believed, yet never experienced in Synagogue. It embraced a sense of spirituality that was truly centered on the idea that there is only "One" God, and we are "IT." Bet Alef was very much about integrating a practice and philosophy of Judaism into my everyday life. It felt (and continues to feel) like an embodiment of a living Torah, an ancient Truth that is actively appropriate in our contemporary lives.
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