Bnei Noah

[Jason]

I am not a jew and that fills me with sorrow. I would do everything for HASHEM, so I tell you: become a chassidic, become a chabad or breslov jew and make aliyah, you will not regret it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRs9Af75MUU&t=688s

I made aliyah. Thirteen years ago. I was far more religiously observant when I lived in the States, mainly because my connection to being Jewish was through the synagogue. I don't attend a synagogue now, though I was attending a Conservative synagogue for a few years when I first arrived. (Went to a few different Orthodox synagogues with friends and friends' families, but I am much more comfortable in Conservative and Reform shuls.) My connection with my Judaism today is through the fact that I live with and among Jews of every type. I live the holiday cycle, the yearly observances, visit Chabad rabbis at their homes for Shabbat dinners, etc. I am not convinced of faith questions as I used to be, though I do spend a lot of time in the text of the Bible and continue to teach Hebrew several times a week.

I don't feel that I necessarily do mitsvot, though what mitsvot I do come naturally to me just by my doing my best to be a moral person. I think that if you devote time to try to determine right behavior and then you live according to it, you can't be far from doing what is good and right in the world—whether you belong to a religious community or not.