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Living in a rural area, how do I follow the 613 laws?

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MassuhDGoodName:
Re:  "Living in a rural area, how do I follow the 613 laws? "

Some of them you get an automatic pass on, because they only apply when the Third Temple comes into being in Jerusalem.

Attempting to observe the rest of the laws presents the dilemma which has followed every Jew since the Exile.

Without a land to call home, the Jew must forever wander.

But to wander away from a Jewish community in Exile, even to escape from persecution or in search of better opportunities, presents tremendous difficulties in keeping the Law, for with each passing generation a little more of Jewish life and Judaism is lost and forgotten.

This same pattern has been repeating itself for two thousand years in every nation in which the Jews have set up communities.

The only sensible answer I can provide to you regarding this problem is as follows:

Now that you are made aware of how removed you are from traditional Jewish life, begin your road back by selecting just one mitzvah which you feel you can best keep within the life and area where you now live.

Then perhaps move on from there to adding another to your observances, and then another.

Better to observe one of the commandments consistently and with meaning than to become vexed at the difficulties presented by all of them at once.

And join the club!

You're in good company!

Most American Jews in major metropolitan areas are oblivious to the realities of being a third generation American Jew born and raised in an area where there is only one Jewish family, with the nearest conservative or reform synagogue being a day's drive away by car.

I personally know of several situations exactly like this.

Even in moderately sized American cities most of the Jewish communities living there today, even the "Orthodox", are to some degree assimilated and are disappearing.

It all makes a good case for an "ideologically based aliyah" to a Jewish State governed with Kahanist principles.

Kahane-Was-Right BT:
BTW, if they have fresh produce, fruits and vegetables, I'm sure you can get those at whatever store that is that you mentioned.

Do they also have packaged foods there?

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