LimmudLA's Mission - Values and Principles
Wherever you find yourself, LimmudLA will take you one step further along your Jewish journey.
Core Value: Learning
- Learning embraces personal development, knowledge and skills.
- Learning changes people, inspires action and opens new worlds.
- There are many inspirations that can offer opportunities for learning.
- Everyone can be a teacher and everyone should be a student.
- We encourage the creation of a learning environment in which people are able to reflect and grow.
Core Value: Community & Mutual Responsibility
- LimmudLA is a community of learning.
- We can achieve more together than we can individually.
- We both gain and should give something back to the Jewish and the wider community.
Core Value: Expanding Jewish Horizons
- LimmudLA strives to create collective and communal experiences, through which we strengthen and develop our Jewish identity.
Core Value: Empowerment
- We inspire people to be ambitious about their contribution.
- We challenge people and trust them to rise to that challenge.
- We see the potential of individuals and communities, and support their development.
- We empower people to make choices, and provide the information to make informed choices.
Core Value: Participation
- Volunteerism is a key feature of almost everything we do.
- We are all responsible for each other and for the communities we create; everyone has an important contribution to make.
- We encourage participants to take an active part in all we do.
Core Value: Diversity
- We value diversity in all that we do.
- We value choice in form, content and style.
- We believe in the richness of our diverse community and create cross-communal and cross-generational experiences.
- We value accessibility, and aim to be accessible to all.
- We encourage people not to stereotype others.
Core Value: Enabling connections to be made
- We aim to create opportunities for communities and individuals to connect.
- We recognize the strength of providing a space where spiritual, emotional and intellectual connections are made.
LimmudLA's Principles: Commitment to Respect
- LimmudLA expects all participants to be respectful of one another, and to recognize that all volunteers are also participants.
- Personal attacks are not acceptable within session material.
- To ensure that informed choices can be made, we ask presenters to provide biographies.
LimmudLA's Principles: Arguments for the Sake of Heaven
- LimmudLA does not participate in legitimizing or de-legitimizing any religious or political position found in the worldwide Jewish community. Anyone who comes to LimmudLA events seeking opportunities for this will not find it.
- LimmudLA has no part to say in the debates between/across denominations. LimmudLA will program its events in such a way as to avoid religious or political conflict. However we do recognize and appreciate that 'arguments for the sake of heaven' can make a positive contribution to furthering our education and understanding. Sessions should therefore be educational and not polemical.
LimmudLA's Principles: Religious Observance
- Shabbat and kashrut are observed in all public areas. We recognize that in private areas people will behave as they wish.
- Should participants wish to hold a prayer group, they may do so providing they supply all resources and are responsible for the session or prayer group in its entirety.