Should You Go Into Professional Kiruv?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, this is David Elsky with our question and answer series. How can I know if I should go into professional kiruv? What kind of person should or shouldn't do it? What skills does it take? What are the considerations or concerns, the financial burden, and any other factors that play in? What does the job really look like practical? Everybody is mechuyav to do kiruv. Everybody is mechuyav to reach out to your fellow Jews. That's not me saying this. This was the Chofetz Chaim in Europe at the Agudah convention. Back in the 1920s where he said, everybody is mechuyav now to do kiruv v'chokhm and reach out to your fellow Jews. It doesn't matter how talented you are, you have to uh do it. At some point, they came up with professional kiruv workers. Now, there was a time when uh a rav in the 1950s said to me, "Every rav of an Orthodox shul was a kiruv worker." Because the majority of the people in your shul were not from or if they were from, they definitely needed to be mechazek themselves. When NCSY started, it started not as a kiruv organization, it started as the youth organization of the Orthodox Union. And mamela, it was a kiruv organization because there were no day schools around and all the kids who davened in Orthodox shuls went to public school. So mamela, it turned out to be a kiruv organization. But as time went on, uh they began what has been described as the kiruv movement. Most people uh would say that the date of what we call the Kiruv movement began with the Six-Day War. The miracles of the Six-Day War suddenly

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Elsky with our question and answer series. How can I know if…
2. 0:31your fellow Jews. That's not me saying this. This was the Chofetz Chaim in Europe at…
3. 1:32And mamela, it was a kiruv organization because there were no day schools around and all…
4. 2:35Judaism as well, people who work in Kiruv. But as as it started, certain yeshivas began…
5. 3:36What do you need to be successful in Kiruv? You have to really, really, really love…
6. 4:39And if you do, then nothing else matters. Many years ago, it's over 30 years ago,…
7. 5:10conversation, takes them to Yeshivas, works with them. Come on. This is just a PR stunt."…
8. 6:11As the Alter of Novardok said, "I never asked whether I could do something. I asked…
9. 7:12etc., and make that your profession, well, you have to figure out if you can get…
10. 8:17and the people became from. Because, as Reb Moshe Shapiro said once, the advice I give…

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