Hanukkah 5784/2023
Light Up Peace: 8 Nights of Virtual Light with Lab/Shul.
Grab your menorah and join Lab/Shul online for eight nights of virtual ritual magic, led by our team + you!
Inspired by HAVAYA/Everpresence we’ll increase the light each night to brighten our reality, home to home, screen to screen, heart to heart.
Join us every night to Spark Wonder Now: Light Up Peace
December 7 – December 14 @7pm EST
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Hanukkah Virtual Candle Lighting
Nightly from December 7th-14th @7pm ET // Online
Let the be More Light these Hanukkah Nights
This Hanukkah – add more light to a world in deep need of consolation, care and hope.
Lab/Shul Winter Retreat
December 8th - 10th // Connecticut
Sabbath Queen: LIVE from the Lab/Shul Retreat
December 8th @8pm ET // Online
Saturday Soulspa: LIVE from the Lab/Shul Retreat
December 9th @4pm ET // Online
Heirlooms: Hanukkah Edition
December 11th @7:30pm ET // Online
Candlelighting Schedule
12/7 – Rededicating our Light – To Life
Join Rabbi Amichai, Shira, Naomi & Ben on this first night of Hanukkah as we jumpstart the festival of lights with all three blessings, illuminating our intentions for peace, healing and hope.
On this night we mark two months since 10/7 and will light additional soul candles to honor the memory of every victim of violence and innocent soul who perished on that terrible day and in the difficult days since.
12/8 – Welcome Shabbat & the Angels of Peace
Welcome Shabbat and the Angels of Peace of ALL AGES as we light up the second candle of Hanukkah, highlighting the gifts of light and sacred time for your entire family.
Shabbat Shalom!
LIVE from the Lab/Shul Winter Weekend Retreat!
12/9 – Three Stars on the Third Night
Count to three and light up the third night of Hanukkah as three stars shine in the sky to indicate the end of Shabbat and celebrate the start of a better week. We’ll include a taste of havdalah and inhale the aroma of fresh latkes.
Shavua Tov.
LIVE from the Lab/Shul Winter Weekend Retreat!
12/10 – Join our READ* Team
Join Shira Kline, Sam Hipschman, and Luis Burgos to light up the fourth night with our READ (Racial, Equity, and Action Delegation) community.
*Want to know more about our READ Team? Special info session with READ after the candle lighting. All are welcome.
12/11 – Heirloom of Hope
What IS the history of the Menorah?
Join Rabbi Amichai to light the fifth night with a focus on Judaism’s oldest symbol of pride, and then stay on as our guest and engage in interactive learning exploring the history and meaning of the Menorah as Judaism’s oldest heirloom of hope.
For more information about the Heirlooms Series, click here.
12/12 – Bring Them Home
Rabbi Amichai, Sarah Sokolic & Lab/Shul Board Of Directors light up the 6th night of Hanukkah at City Winery with special guests – representatives of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum NY, who will share updates on the campaign to release the Israeli hostages in Gaza and offer relief efforts to families.
Learn more here.
12/13 – Teen Spirit!
Raise the bar with us on the 7th Night with our B Mitzvah families, led by Naomi Less, Stephanie Kane and Ben Freeman.
Get #lit.
12/14 – That’s a Wrap!
Join Rabbi Amichai at his home to celebrate all eight nights, honoring our GENerate group of leaders and elders, as we celebrate life and empower the next generations.
News
How to Activate Our Oldest Strategy for Dismantling Despair
This Hanukkah – add more light to a world in deep need of consolation, care and hope. Add another Menorah in your home or public ritual on each of the eight nights, to remember the Israeli hostages still in Gaza, sending them a ray of light and imagining each one of them glowing in this candlelight of love and safety.
Dedicate Hanukkah to Radical Imagining
Dear Lab/Shul If you had to dedicate your life to one thing, what would it be? A cause? A people? A dream? Hanukkah, beginning this Thursday, is one of our beloved holidays, and while it has [...]
Hanukkah with Lab/Shul 🕎
Dear Lab/Shul, Today is the first day of December; winter holidays are almost upon us. And while the war still grips our hearts with deep concern - and as we watch with bated breath for any sign [...]
The bright lights of Hanukkah 2023/5784 continue to burn bright in our hearts. While we all grappled with this year’s unique and complicated Hanukkah - mid-war - we insisted on dismantling despair, flame by flame, raising high our ancient torch of faith in kinder days of healing, with intentions for the cessation of violence, and a long term solution to this devastating conflict. Whether or not you were able to join our 8 nights of virtual candle lighting, we invite you to take a moment to watch this recap and reflect on the celebration of Jewish survival and human hope.
Let us build upon it in 2024. Thank you - our community - for being a light during these cold long nights, supporting our shared work and helping the world glow a little bit brighter. Please consider a financial gift to Lab/Shul.
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Let there be even more light on this and on every night.
✨Be a spark. Shine on. ✨
#labshul #hanukkah #morelight2023 #candlelighting #peace #justice #hope #light
"Find some spaciousness inside this urgency?" Listen to Rabbi @amichailaulavie and @arishapiro of @npr in conversation for the end of Hanukkah, the current state of the war, and how the the alchemy of candlighting can be a tool for holding complex truths and trying to find peace amidst the conflict.
🔗Link in Bio to listen
#labshul #hanukkah #morelight2023 #npr
As we approach the final night of Hanukkah this year, we invite you to virtually join @amichailaulavie from his home to light the 8th night’s candles. We will be honoring our GENerate group of leaders and elders, as we celebrate life and empower the next generations.
🔗Link in bio to register 🔗
https://www.labshul.org/event/virtual-hanukkah-candle-lighting/2023-12-14/
#hanukkah #hanukkah2023 #morelight2023 #generations #candlelight #candlelighting #menorah
Rabbi @amichailaulavie & @sarahsokolic will be joined by the Lab/Shul Board Of Directors to light up the 6th night of Hanukkah at @citywinerynyc with special guests: representatives of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum NY, who will share updates on the campaign to release the Israeli hostages in Gaza and offer relief efforts to families.
🕎Register to join us: Link in Bio (https://labshul.shulcloud.com/form/hanukkah-5784-virtual-candle-lighting.html)
👉Learn more about our guests:
https://linktr.ee/BringThemHomeNow_NY (@bringhomenow)
#labshul #Hanukkah #hanukkah2023 #giftoflife #giftsoflife#morelight2023 #candlelighting #lightcandles #chanukah #citywinery #nyc
Tonight - Night 5 of Hanukkah - join Lab/Shul @ 7pm as Rabbi Amichai guides us through the candle lighting with a focus on Judaism’s oldest symbol of PRIDE... the #menorah! Then stay to engage in interactive learning exploring the history and meaning of the Menorah as Judaism’s oldest heirloom of HOPE.
All are welcome.
🕎Register to join us ONLINE --> Link in Bio (https://labshul.shulcloud.com/form/hanukkah-5784-virtual-candle-lighting.html)
🕎Want more information about the Heirlooms Series? --> https://www.labshul.org/event/heirlooms-2023-10-23-2023-12-11/
#labshul #Hanukkah #hanukkah2023 #giftoflife #giftsoflife #shabbatshalom #shabbat #morelight2023 #heirlooms #symbols #menorahs
More information about the Heirlooms Series: https://www.labshul.org/event/heirlooms-2023-10-23-2023-12-11/
