The Jewish Bucket List

The Jewish Bucket List

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:

1. Visit The Western Wall
2. Go on an all-inclusive Pesach retreat
3. Make the perfect bowl of Chicken soup
4. Tefilin Challenge for 30 days
5. Tiffilin challenge for one year
6. Charity Challenge: give every day for 30 days
7. Charity challenge for one year
8. Be president of some organization: WIZO, B’nei Brith, JNF etc.
9. Re-learn Bar Mitzvah Haftorah
10. Light Shabbat Candles for one year every Friday
11. Visit the great Synagogue in Sydney
12. Enjoy a service in the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem
13. Eat a felafel on the streets of Jerusalem or Tel Aviv
14. Snorkel or Scuba dive in the Red Sea
15. Float in the Dead Sea
16. Throw a Chanukah party with homemade jelly doughnuts and latkas
17. Bake your own hamentachen on Purim and send to at least ten people
18. Convince your Rabbi to let you give a Saturday morning Sermon
19. Visit the oldest Synagogue in your country, State, Province, continent, world
20. Raise 10,000- 50k or 100k for your favourite Jewish Charity
21. Serves on a board of something you believe in: Synagogue, School, etc.
22. Write a Jewish Cook book with all your Bubes, mother, friends, and your own favourite kosher recipes
23. Write a Jewish book, on anything
24. Go on a kosher cruise
25. Meet your favourite Jewish Author, Rabbi, Sports personality, Singer
26. Host a Friday night dinner
27. Fast the whole Yom Kippur (no cheating)
28. Complete all 5 fast days during the year (start with no food then no water)
29. Study a tractate of Talmud
30. Learn to sing 5 Shabbat songs
31. Learn to blow the shofar and blow it every day for the month of Ellul
32. Pray at the burial site of some famous Rabbi or great Jewish leader you admire
33. Don’t talk for the entire Yom Kippur
34. 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)
35. Build a Sukkah
36. Decorate a Sukkah
37. Make a blessing in the Sukkah on each day of Sukkot
38. Be the last one dancing on Simchat Torah
39. Go to the hospital/orphanage etc. and give Chanukah gelt (money) and chocolates
40. Get dressed up on Purim as your favourite superhero, movie character etc.
41. Host  a Purim Hamentachen swap
42. Learn to chant the Meggilat Esther
43. Participate in a Passover Seder that goes until 5:00am or later…(this way no one will have out done you!)
44. Bake your own matzah
45. Host your own Seder
46. Learn to recite the mansihtana in a foreign language. Make it extreme, maybe in Swahili or Urdu…something unique!
47. Develop perfect vocal sound effects for the ‘chad gadya’ song: a cat, dog, Angel of death…
48. Eat the right amount of Matzah according to the Rabbi. Not just a bitsy piece…go on eat three whole Maztahs!
49. Count the Omer every day until Shavout
50. Do something special for Yom Hashoah: ideas
51. Visit Auschwitz
52. Send flowers, cookies, to some Israeli soldiers with a card telling them how much you love them, on Yom Hazikaron
53. Learn Israeli dancing
54. Make your own falafel balls
55. Walk the National Israel Trail. All of it or part of it
56. Study in depth the history of Israel. Read a few books
57. Stay up and study the whole night of Shavout
58. Bake your own cheesecake, blintzes and lasagne. Make your own ice cream
59. Volunteer for a month in Israel, on a kibbutz, Magen David Adom, in a hospital, study centre..
60. Successfully make a shiduch (match a couple who get married)
61. Go on the ‘March of The Living’
62. Learn to speak, read, write Hebrew
63. Learn to read and speak Yiddish
64. Visit the death camps in Poland
65. Start a Jewish Charity for something you believe in
66. Visit one hundred Chabbad houses around the world
67. Fly first class on El Al (is it any better?)
68. ???
69. ??
70. ?