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How It All StartedAish Tamid began in late 2001 when a phone call for inspiration was made by a student in Los Angeles to Rabbi Avi Leibovic, a Jewish Attorney and Founder of Aish Tamid. The words of that telephone call still ring out today... “I’m dying spiritually here in Los Angeles....Since I came back from my year in Israel, I stopped putting on tefillan...I am unsure why I still keep shabbos...I am tempted daily to stop keeping kosher and I am at the point that I almost don’t even care anymore if I stay religious or not....You are the only person that I feel comfortable to learn and talk with... If we don’t get together and talk all this our soon - fast – I may be finished for good with Judaism...You can write me off...” Immediately after that passionate cry for inspiration, an intimate study group was set up with the student and another friend in the back of a local synagogue in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles. Within a week, another four (4) friends joined the group. Soon, another few more friends came to learn, talk and share. Slowly and by word of mouth, even more students from all over the city started coming… Who would have imagined? Who would have dreamed that within a few years a rotation of over five hundred (500) different students, from all of Los Angeles’ different schools and communities, would be actively engaged and attending inspirational classes, workshops and/or one-on-one life-coaching discussions. This program has come to be known amongst the Los Angeles students as Aish Tamid of Los Angeles - the Perpetual Fire of Los Angeles. |