“In addition to feeding the homeless, they were working to create job training programs throughout the city. While tutoring kids in low-income communities, they were also creating thoughtful relationships with their senators to work on educational reform. And all the while, they were doing it within a Jewish framework that teaches us if you want to heal the world you must also work to heal yourself and the community.This is known as balancing the desire for Tikkun Olam (healing the world) with Tikkun HaNefesh (healing the self/soul). And there it was, for the first time in my life I realized that the rabbinate would allow me to combine my passion for social justice with my desire to create stronger, more empathetic communities that could combine internal healing with external healing.”