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How Kayaking in Alaska Prepared Me To Be a Rabbi

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein reflects on his transformative experience leading a kayaking trip through Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which became his personal Sinai of revelation. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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LeadershipAlaskaPirkei AvotArctic National Wildlife RefugeKayakingRabbi Niles Elliot GoldsteinExistential ReflectionNature And SpiritualityBrooks RangeWilderness Preservation

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Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
"I organized the ANWR trip with my friend Dave, a wilderness guide whod moved to Fairbanks, Alaska from Florida and whom I had met during a summer internship at a synagogue there two years earlier."
Alaska, United States
"I am reminded of the summer I spent a few years back leading a sea kayaking trip through the Refuge."

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