Hey all, I’ve been inspired to create a Jewish bucket list for my readers on Traveling Rabbi.
Would love to hear your ideas, maybe comment here or send them to me so I can compile them all together.
100 Things for your Jewish Bucket List…
100 things to do in Israel…
100 kosher Foods to try before you die…
100 Jewish rituals to observe…
100 Synagogues to visit…
Here is an Idea of my Jewish Bucket list so far in no particular order:
- Visit The Western Wall
- Go on an all-inclusive Pesach retreat
- Make the perfect bowl of Chicken soup
- Tefilin Challenge for 30 days
- Tiffilin challenge for one year
- Charity Challenge: give every day for 30 days
- Charity challenge for one year
- Be president of some organization: WIZO, B’nei Brith, JNF etc.
- Re-learn Bar Mitzvah Haftorah
- Light Shabbat Candles for one year every Friday
- Visit the great Synagogue in Sydney
- Enjoy a service in the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem
- Eat a felafel on the streets of Jerusalem or Tel Aviv
- Snorkel or Scuba dive in the Red Sea
- Float in the Dead Sea
- Throw a Chanukah party with homemade jelly doughnuts and latkas
- Bake your own hamentachen on Purim and send to at least ten people
- Convince your Rabbi to let you give a Saturday morning Sermon
- Visit the oldest Synagogue in your country, State, Province, continent, world
- Raise 10,000- 50k or 100k for your favourite Jewish Charity
- Serves on a board of something you believe in: Synagogue, School, etc.
- Write a Jewish Cook book with all your Bubes, mother, friends, and your own favourite kosher recipes
- Write a Jewish book, on anything
- Go on a kosher cruise
- Meet your favourite Jewish Author, Rabbi, Sports personality, Singer
- Host a Friday night dinner
- Fast the whole Yom Kippur (no cheating)
- Complete all 5 fast days during the year (start with no food then no water)
- Study a tractate of Talmud
- Learn to sing 5 Shabbat songs
- Learn to blow the shofar and blow it every day for the month of Ellul
- Pray at the burial site of some famous Rabbi or great Jewish leader you admire
- Don’t talk for the entire Yom Kippur
- Break your Yom Kippur fast with your best friend or family member with a l’chaim on a whisky or down a beer (consult your doctor first)
- Build a Sukkah
- Decorate a Sukkah
- Make a blessing in the Sukkah on each day of Sukkot
- Be the last one dancing on Simchat Torah
- Go to the hospital/orphanage etc. and give Chanukah gelt (money) and chocolates
- Get dressed up on Purim as your favourite superhero, movie character etc.
- Host a Purim Hamentachen swap
- Learn to chant the Meggilat Esther
- Participate in a Passover Seder that goes until 5:00am or later…(this way no one will have out done you!)
- Bake your own matzah
- Host your own Seder
- Learn to recite the mansihtana in a foreign language. Make it extreme, maybe in Swahili or Urdu…something unique!
- Develop perfect vocal sound effects for the ‘chad gadya’ song: a cat, dog, Angel of death…
- Eat the right amount of Matzah according to the Rabbi. Not just a bitsy piece…go on eat three whole Maztahs!
- Count the Omer every day until Shavout
- Do something special for Yom Hashoah: ideas
- Visit Auschwitz
- Send flowers, cookies, to some Israeli soldiers with a card telling them how much you love them, on Yom Hazikaron
- Learn Israeli dancing
- Make your own falafel balls
- Walk the National Israel Trail. All of it or part of it
- Study in depth the history of Israel. Read a few books
- Stay up and study the whole night of Shavout
- Bake your own cheesecake, blintzes and lasagne. Make your own ice cream
- Volunteer for a month in Israel, on a kibbutz, Magen David Adom, in a hospital, study centre..
- Successfully make a shiduch (match a couple who get married)
- Go on the ‘March of The Living’
- Learn to speak, read, write Hebrew
- Learn to read and speak Yiddish
- Visit the death camps in Poland
- Start a Jewish Charity for something you believe in
- Visit one hundred Chabbad houses around the world
- Fly first class on El Al (is it any better?)
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