This week was my congregation's annual shabbaton. We take over a cabin in the "suburbs" of Zelienople and have a grand time. This year was the largest I've seen at 42 people, and all of them seemed to be engaged in it. It was great.
When nobody feels pressure (got to get upstairs to the bar mitzvah, got to ( Read more... )

This shabbat was our congregation's annual retreat. We had several ( Read more... )

This week was my congregation's annual shabbaton. I want more shabbatot like that. :-)
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This Shabbat was my congregation's annual shabbat retreat. I look forward to this every year -- sorry to anyone who was looking for me at AEthelmearc War Practice this weekend, but this takes priority. This year was also exactly my tenth "anniversary" -- ten ( Read more... )

This Shabbat was my congregation's annual retreat. Another congregant ( Read more... )

This Shabbat was my congregation's annual retreat. I look forward to this every year. This year there were 30 of us (a few more than last year); we get a rural lodge and spend Shabbat singing, praying, studying, and talking. (And eating. I'm told it's genetically impossible for Jews to get together without lots of food. :-) )
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This weekend was my congregation's annual shabbaton (Shabbat retreat). A couple dozen of us, mostly regulars from the morning minyan, go to a cabin in rural PA to pray, study, talk, and eat. It's something I always look forward to, and this year was once again a good experience.
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This weekend was my congregation's annual Shabbat retreat. I had a ( Read more... )

This year's shabbaton was wonderful. The sense of connection and completeness that it provides is just so much stronger than a "regular" Shabbat. I want more of that! :-)
We had 24 people this year, and went back to the site ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )