In modern contemporary society, we’re conditioned to believe that you ought to be rich and to attain that, you have to go to college and find a career from which you shall derive purpose from. The concept goes, that from a purpose-filled career, you will be highly specialized and become highly rich. Unfortunately, they tend to conflate what being rich and what being wealthy is. If you, well more specifically - college and school teach you how to be a good worker. If you want to learn how to be a good person, how to be a righteous person, and more specifically how to be a righteous Jew, especially if you’re young, in high school, or even middle school or college, you ought to consider programs like MAJOR. If you want to be rich or rather learn to be rich, you go to college. If you want to learn to be wealthy and righteous, you do programs like MAJOR. Why? Because they teach you the intangible. They teach you how to properly lead a life, what it is to truly have meaning in life, what it means to be a good person, what does it take to derive value and meaning from life’s most difficult moments. There's a reason why us Jews have faced antisemitism since our very inception, and even, quite frankly, prior to that. It’s because those Jews were steeped in Torah knowledge and knew what they were fighting for. They knew why they were weathering the storm. Many of us have grown up concealed from it, so it is our duty to learn what all those generations of Jews fought so stubbornly to preserve.
To know what you’re preserving is to have, in and of itself, meaning. A bannerman on a hill without a banner is a fool with a stick. Many modern secular Jews, unfortunately, are fools with a stick. Why on earth? What buffoon would stand on a hill fighting to the death over gefilte fish, over tiny hats, over Fiddler on the Roof? These are cultural trinkets to some extent or emblematic items. They don’t define what a Jew is. If you want to know why we’re facing certain things, if you want to really understand and have meaning, associate value to what we’re facing, you ought to consider even attending one class from MAJOR or anything like it. And if I’m wrong, then so be it. But if I’m right, it only takes one step in the door to open up a whole new world of opportunities, albeit programs like MAJOR provide you pathways that cannot be mapped nor charted, cannot be envisioned, cannot be projected out. It’s something very much so intangible that you can only truly appreciate if you take that risk. So if you’re a proud Jew, let’s see how much pride you really have, let’s see what you’re made of.
-From a young professional from near Milwaukee.