Shabbat plans
This shabbat is our morning minyan's annual retreat. These are always a blast -- spending an entire Shabbat with like-minded people. We're going to have fewer like-minded people this year than usual due to various scheduling problems, but the last number I heard was 24 and that's past critical mass. So we'll go to a cabin in the woods, and we'll study and sing and pray, and other people will feed us. I should take the tikkun and the trope book, just in case someone expresses curiosity. And anyway, David (the reader at Tree of Life) agreed this morning to let me chant for my "birthday" portion in two weeks, so I should review that. (I've done the first two weekday aliyot before, so that's just rust. I'm welcome to tackle the third, but no pressure.)
I'll be riding to the retreat with a new member (of both the congregation and the minyan), which should be fun. She's a retired professor of Jewish history, if I understand correctly. She seems smart and clueful.
Random factoid learned from our top-notch administrator: the torah scroll always gets wrapped in colorless plastic for the trip, never a black bag -- because black bags are well-understood as trash bags. Hmm, never thought about that, but yeah -- wouldn't want anything to happen to that! (Hmm. I wonder if anyone in the minyan has basic woodworking skills. A box for transporting a sefer torah shouldn't be that hard, if you've got the tools and the clues.)
I'll be riding to the retreat with a new member (of both the congregation and the minyan), which should be fun. She's a retired professor of Jewish history, if I understand correctly. She seems smart and clueful.
Random factoid learned from our top-notch administrator: the torah scroll always gets wrapped in colorless plastic for the trip, never a black bag -- because black bags are well-understood as trash bags. Hmm, never thought about that, but yeah -- wouldn't want anything to happen to that! (Hmm. I wonder if anyone in the minyan has basic woodworking skills. A box for transporting a sefer torah shouldn't be that hard, if you've got the tools and the clues.)