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When study groups struggle to translate learning into shared practice

My chavurah has been studying Jewish environmental teachings but when we try to make collective decisions about how to live more sustainably we discover our individual circumstances make it impossible to find practices everyone can actually do. The gap between our ideals and our real lives is making people defensive.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Moving from intellectual agreement to embodied practice reveals how different life circumstances make collective action more complex than collective belief.

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“Where Are You with Jewish tikkun olam — repairing the world?”

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