The executive director and rabbi of Chabad Shul of Potomac, Mendel Bluming guides an organization that emphasizes the importance of inclusiveness and community. At the core of Menachem Mendel Bluming’s focus is family and education within the Jewish tradition as taught through the Chabad prism.
The word Chabad combines chochmah, wisdom; binah, understanding; and da’at, knowing, as a vehicle for serving and developing an awareness of G-d. G-d intended for a relationship with Him to encompass the entire person. Not only their experience (sukkah) and emotion (love of G-d) but even their highest intellect as the verse teaches in Divrei Hayamim Chronicles chapter 28, "Dah es elokay avichah viavdayhu bilev shalem", Know the G-d of your fathers and thereby serve him wholeheartedly. If a person leaves their mind or their heart out of the relationship it is not their full being who is serving G-d.That relationship needs to be nurtured and built, it takes work not just faith.
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AuthorRabbi Mendel Bluming also dedicated six years to serving on the board of directors of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, where he received the Matthew H. Simon Rabbinical Award for exceptional communal leadership. Archives
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