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Chabad Mercer Island is a place where you can celebrate Judaism joyfully and with meaning. A place where Judaism sheds relevant perspective to our daily lives. Filled with opportunities to expand your mind, excite your heart, and touch your soul. Our center offers you a wide range of learning, connection, and outreach opportunities for all ages. Experience is paramount, and your questions are encouraged and embraced.
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8:51 PM  -  Friday, July 3
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10:10 PM  -  Shabbat, July 4
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Daily Thought
Intelligence Liberated
Blind faith is intellect’s most deadly foe. Intellect that would surrender to faith has forfeited its very nature. True faith is intellect’s most vital partner. To travel beyond its boundaries, intellect must find a vision that transcends itself. That is the meaning of true faith: A perspective that surpasses the field of intellect’s vision, a sense that there is something not only unknown, but unknowable; something before which all our knowledge is an infinitesimal point of nothingness. And so, the mind that fears faith will choose a truth with which it is most comfortable, while the mind that has...
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