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Chabad of Bakersfield is founded on the principle that, while people embrace many levels of observance in their personal lives, there should be a place for no labels, and all affiliations. A place where people can develop a sense of community and enhance their own spiritual experiences of Judaism.
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As a parent and a child, as siblings who remain bonded, as two young people in love, as in any marriage that stays alive—so we are with the One Above. One chases, the other runs away. One runs away, the other chases in longing pursuit. One initiates, the other responds. The other initiates, the one responds. It is a dance, a game, a duet, and it plays as surely as the pulse of life. Until one falls away. Until it seems the game is over, that all is lost and it is time to move on. That’s when the other looks and says, “This is not an other. We are one.” And so...