Question Cards

Share about a time when you
left home for an unfamiliar place.

“You cannot swim for new
horizons until you have courage
to lose sight of the shore.”

WILLIAM FAULKNER

What do you most appreciate
about Shabbat?

“Shabbat is one of the greatest
gifts of Judaism, and it can be
appreciated on so many levels;
each level building on the one
before it to create a true harmony
of spiritual, ethical, and personal
growth every single week.”

MAYIM BIALIK

What are some of your
favorite unexpected discoveries
from traveling?

“All journeys have secret
destinations of which the
traveler is unaware.”

MARTIN BUBER

Where were you surprised to find
that you found yourself at home?

“Traveling carries with it
the curse of being at home
everywhere and yet nowhere,
for wherever one is, some
part of oneself remains on
another continent.”

MARGOT FONTEYN

What do you most appreciate
about travel?

“When people ask me why I still have
hope and energy after all these years,
I always say: Because I travel… It leads us
out of denial and into reality, out of theory
and into practice, out of caution and into
action, out of statistics and into stories—
in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.”

GLORIA STEINEM

Share about a friend you have
made while traveling.

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent
bigotry, but by demonstrating
that all peoples cry, laugh, eat,
worry, and die, it can introduce
the idea that if we try and
understand each other, we may
even become friends.”

MAYA ANGELOU

What is something that you have
taken with you from your travels or something
you have left behind?

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always
comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even
breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The
journey changes you; it should change
you. It leaves marks on your memory,
on your consciousness, on your heart,
and on your body. You take something
with you. Hopefully, you leave something
good behind.”

ANTHONY BOURDAIN

What defines your roots?
Where do you hope your legs
will take you?

“Isaac Deutscher, a Jewish refugee
from 1930s Poland, was pestered in
a Cambridge University common
room by a colleague who insisted
on discussing the issue of his Jewish
roots. Irritated, Deutscher retorted,
‘trees have roots, Jews have legs!’”

JEREMY LEIGH

How do you creates “pauses”
in your life?

“In great living, as in great music,
the art may be in the pauses.
Surely one of the enduring
contributions which Judaism made
to the art of living was the Shabbat,
the ‘pauses between the notes.’”

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Share about a time when you have
felt part of the larger Jewish world.

“There is a single Jewish world: intertwined and interconnected.”

RALPH I. GOLDMAN