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Chabad of Ocala and The Villages strives to reach every Jew in Ocala, The Villages and surrounding communities regardless of their affiliation, level of observance, or background.

We seek to provide the needs of the Jewish community both spiritually and physically by creating a warm Jewish environment where every Jew will feel at home.
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Naturally, we think of the Jewish people as a conglomerate of many Jews. But the Baal Shem Tov saw the Jewish people as a single, indivisible whole. Think of a geometrical point. A point is indivisible, but not because it is too hard, too big, or too small to cut up. A point simply has no area to be divided. That’s what makes it a point. And yet, from a point you can extend infinite lines radiating in infinite dimensions. In a somewhat similar way, but far beyond, all Jews are one Jew. Which means that in any one Jew, you will find all of us—just from a different angle. So that whatever happens to any one of us instantaneously happens to the entire Jewish people. Not by some ripple effect or resonance. But...