Values and Principles

Wherever you find yourself, Limmud will take you one step further along your Jewish journey.

Limmud's Core Values

Learning

• Learning embraces personal development, knowledge and skills
• Learning changes people, inspires action and opens new worlds
• There are many inspirations that can offer opportunities for learning
• Everyone can be a teacher and everyone should be a student
• We encourage the creation of a learning environment in which people are able to reflect and grow

Community & Mutual Responsibility

• Limmud is a community of learning
• We can achieve more together than we can individually
• We both gain and should give something back to the Jewish and the wider community

Expanding Jewish Horizons

• Limmud strives to create collective and communal experiences, through which we strengthen and develop our Jewish identity

Empowerment

• We inspire people to be ambitious about their contribution
• We challenge people and trust them to rise to that challenge
• We see the potential of individuals and communities, and support their development
• We empower people to make choices, and provide the information to make informed choices 

Participation

• Volunteerism is a key feature of almost everything we do
• We are all responsible for each other and for the communities we create, everyone has an important contribution to make
• We encourage participants to take an active part in all we do

Diversity

• We value diversity in all that we do
• We value choice in form, content and style
• We believe in the richness of our diverse community and create cross-communal and cross-generational experiences
• We value accessibility, and aim to be accessible to all
• We encourage people not to stereotype others

Enabling Connections to be Made

• We aim to create opportunities for communities and individuals to connect
• We recognise the strength of providing a space where spiritual, emotional and intellectual connections are made

Limmud's Principles

Commitment to Respect

• Limmud expects all participants to be respectful of one another, and to recognise that all volunteers are also participants.
• Personal attacks are not acceptable within session material
• To ensure that informed choices can be made, we ask presenters to provide biographies

Arguments for the Sake of Heaven

• Limmud does not participate in legitimising or de-legitimising any religious or political position found in the worldwide Jewish community. Anyone who comes to Limmud events seeking opportunities for this will not find it
• Limmud has no part to say in the debates between/across denominations. Limmud will programme its events in such a way as to avoid religious or political conflict. However we do recognise and appreciate that 'arguments for the sake of heaven' can make a positive contribution to furthering our education and understanding. Sessions should therefore be educational and not polemical

Religious Observance

• Shabbat and kashrut are observed in all public areas. We recognise that in private areas people will behave as they wish
• Should participants wish to hold a prayer group, they may do so providing they supply all resources and are responsible for the session or prayer group in its entirety