“I am the only chareidi-presenting woman employed at my Tel Aviv high-tech company, and over the past few years, I have experienced countless moments that show that the spark truly is there”
I read both Rav Ginzberg’s and Rabbi Yonoson Rosenblum’s back-to-back articles on chareidi responsibility to the wider Israeli population with great interest. I felt both articles were deeply connected and spoke to a higher cause that frum Jews have, at this stage more than ever before — to be “a light among the nations,” but within our own nation.
I am the only chareidi-presenting woman employed at my Tel Aviv high-tech company, and over the past few years, I have experienced countless moments that show that the spark truly is there.
There are Jews walking around this country who are several generations Israeli and yet are completely disconnected from their Jewish roots — to the point that many have grown up within an hour of Jerusalem and have never set eyes on the Kotel, or couldn’t utter a single sentence of the Shema if their lives depended on it — yet they are open to conversation about Orthodox Judaism seemingly out of nowhere.
A coworker of mine, who has never in her life opened a siddur, will flip through the one on my desk and ask questions about the text. It is clear she feels a stirring that is new and scary but also ancient and exciting. I can only sit there and watch with curiosity at her discovery of words that are truly as foreign to her as another language, and be ready to engage in the conversation should she want one.
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