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Rooted: Jewish Values Run Deep is a 4-part video series exploring the productive tensions between Jewish values, what can be learned from those tensions, and how they can enrich Judaism. These questions serve as a starting point for both personal reflection and community conversation, and each video is accompanied by a guide that can help facilitate and deepen these dialogues.

• Making Jewish Tradition Relevant to Modern Life - How can Jewish tradition elevate our day-to-day existence in the 21st century? What does the Jewish past have to do with our own future?
   
• Which Comes First in Judaism: Justice or Kindness? - Can the idea of judgment exist without the idea of mercy? Explore the duality of justice and loving-kindness in our daily lives and practice, and the ways each shapes us into better versions of ourselves.
   
• What’s More Important in Judaism — Others or Yourself?
   
• How Judaism Finds Inspiration in the Everyday - How do you balance Judaism’s everyday rituals and commandments with feelings of religious inspiration?