Abstract
A primary goal of service-learning is to effect some change in the world. A secondary goal of service-learning in Jewish contexts is the strengthening of Jewish community. Yet service-learning is also a kind of learning, designed to bring about certain kinds of growth among the individual participants. This learning ought to be understood in dispositional terms; that is, in terms of the cultivation of aspects of character that are associated with the practice of Jewish service at its best. To develop this concept and to propose specifi c dispositions that may function as goals for Jewish service-learning, this article turns to recent scholarship by James Kugel that focuses on the centrally important Jewish concept of avodat Hashem, service of God.