As Conservative Jews, we believe deeply that the path to an open, modern, energetic Judaism is through our inherited texts, traditions, and modes of Jewish worship. At the vital center of Jewish religious life our movement seeks to balance tradition and change, to draw on the wisdom of our tradition to speak to an evolving world. We believe that our communal spaces and institutions must welcome and celebrate the whole spectrum of what it means to be a person in the 21st century. We believe in the intrinsic value of Talmud Torah — studying the Torah — as an enduring wellspring of spiritual meaning and relevance. We believe in Hebrew as the sacred and living language of Judaism. We believe in the Jewish obligation to create a world of chesed, love, and tzedek, righteousness.