Monday, April 17 9:00 AM–12:00 PM Camp Teva Please see page 39 for details. 9:00–12:00 PM Traditional Orthodox Services: Shacharit, Hallel, Torah Reading, and Musaf 10:00–11:00 AM Bibliodrama Elizabeth Yaari Explore the experience of the post exodus through role play of biblical characters and objects. 12:00–12:45 PM Adamah Foods Kiddush and D’var Torah 12:45–2:15 PM Farm-to-Table Lunch
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Great Hall Dining Hall/Library
2:15–5:00 PM Camp Teva Please see page 39 for details. 2:15–2:30 PM Traditional Orthodox Mincha
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2:30–3:45 PM Meditative Hike and Singing Meet at Gazebo – Outside Simcha Halpert-Hanson Take space to focus your kevannah for Pesach. How can this chag bring healing? Consider this question on a lightly guided hiking meditation to the Overlook. Once at the top, we will join together to direct our hearts through chants and rounds as a vehicle for further reflection and opening. 2:30–3:45 PM A Time for Action Synagogue Aaron Potek We’ll study a section of the Talmud from Tractate Sotah that reinterprets the story we read on the seventh day of Passover about the splitting of the Red Sea. Together we’ll explore the spiritual value and cost of acting independently and taking action. All texts will be in English – no prior knowledge or skills required. 2:30–3:45 PM Who is the God of Exodus? Beige Yurt Jina Davidovich When we first meet the God of Shemot (the Book of Exodus), God is a co-conspirator in the plan of the Jewish midwives to save the babies that Pharaoh decreed should be killed. This God seems merciful and intimately keen on saving life. In the next few chapters, however, we are exposed to a God who is destructive, seemingly unconcerned with the plight of the Egyptians suffering from a series of plagues, and intent on letting the world know God’s might. How can we reconcile these different manifestations of God and connect to these narratives in order to achieve our own personal, and communal, redemption?
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