Our tradition teaches us the importance of community, even to the extent that we should uproot ourselves to live in a community where Torah is studied (Rabbi Nehorai, Pirke Avot IV, 18). We are fortunate to live in a community where the study of Torah is growing, and we are blessed to be able to contribute to that growth in some small way. We pray that Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun will indeed be a place where others come to study Torah and to live in a vibrant, committed Jewish community.
