On Oct 2-3 and Oct 11-12 we gathered at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in NYC and online, to co-create community and activate a new year with renewed focus on what matters most. Rabbi Amichai’s prophetic sermons from Erev Rosh Hashanah & Kol Nidre are available now:
We invite you to check out more highlights on Youtube and instagram, including full recordings, Storahtelling, and more!
THANKS: Our giant gratitude to all who co-created these powerful days with us in so many ways, with so much talent and passion – and to all of you who joined us, in NYC and at home – to begin this brave new year together.
WOW: So many meaningful moments were experienced and so much labor of love went into every single detail of the sacred season. Take a moment to reflect: What’s ONE WOW from these days that stays with you today and into the new year? Want to share your WOW? Feel free to express your radical amazement and you can always tag @labshul.
OOPS: The official season of forgiveness is over but never too late to apologize for whatever way we may have missed the mark. If there’s any helpful feedback or suggestion for improving what we do ahead — we are sorry for anything that may have gone wrong and ask for your forgiveness – and feedback!
PLEASE: It costs more than $200,000 to create our artist-driven, everybody friendly High Holy Days experience, from our youngest participants to our elders. Lab/Shul does not a make a profit on the High Holy Days. What you generously contribute through your ticket purchase only covers direct costs, so we rely on donations to support our year-round programming and operations.
This past Saturday we gathered in Brooklyn to unscroll our Torah from the end to the beginning - and began again from our Genesis, eager for a much better year, for all. Led by our ritual team + guest shamans & storytellers, we held the circle of our sacred story and sang about starting again from the beginning, again and again, with pain and with hope. We unscrolled, uplifted, raised each other’s prayers during these difficult days and lit up the Shabbat of Genesis, building bridges towards kinder days and better stories that can serve our people and all people - better. Let there be light.
For more photo + video recap, please visit our Facebook album at: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.865251732433092&type=3
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Tonight, more than 20 Jewish groups will join the annual event celebrating Simchat Torah despite their political differences: Simchat Torah Across Brooklyn starts tonight.
Our very own Executive Director and Associate Director & co-founderss @sarahsokolic & @naomiless1 are beautifully quoted in today`s article by @jtanews: "After a year that divided many Jews, a Simchat Torah tradition of togetherness resumes in Brooklyn"
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➡To join us for Simchat Torah programs, see the CALENDAR LINK in our bio or visit: www.labshul.org/calendar/
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We begin again… THIS FRIDAY…
On the one year Hebrew anniversary of the horrific day we all remember, we will gather to wrap up the High Holy Days that weaves Simchat Torah and Shabbat with a ritual of healing, hope and peace — in partnership with @theneighborhoodbk.
We will cast a circle of sacred storytelling and live music, marking endings and beginnings, face to face.
🍽️ We invite you to stay after the ritual for BYO Shabbat dinner/vegetarian potluck.
🙏 Ritual led by Rabbi @amichailaulavie, @naomiless1 and @bshatteredbfree along with Rabbi @annielewisgram, Rabbi @yosgold, @martinehandelmanshluffy , @hebrewpriestess , @thatindoorcat , @miriams.well , @shoshanajedwab
🎨 Special activities for Children’s Program led by educator Kohenet Stephanie Guedalia.
✨All ages, all faiths. Open, free and accessible to all.✨
This event is
🔗Register through the calendar link in our bio or visit:
https://www.labshul.org/event/unscrolled-we-begin-again-a-simchat-torah-gathering/
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🔔 PROGRAM ALERT 🔔
Recollect - in honor of Sukkot - A season Kaddish Gathering
TOMORROW - October 24th, 2024
12pm EST | ONLINE
As we leave the high holidays and enter into the harvest holiday of Sukkot, the Jewish calendar offers us an opportunity to invite the ancestors who came before us into temporary shelters (Sukkot). These huts serve as memory holders for both biblical ancestors and our own who we love and miss. Sukkot is the first of three ancient pilgrimage holidays when collective community gathers to remember (Yizkor).
We will create our temporary shelter online during our weekly Virtual Kaddish Call. Rabbi @amichailaulavie will join us for this special extended call to offer learning and space to hold our grief.
Lab/Shul’s ReCollect/Yizkor is a seasonal gathering to remember our loved ones, share stories, lift memory, and say Kaddish, the ancient memorial prayer, together.
More info through the CALENDAR LINK in our bio or by visiting:
https://www.labshul.org/event/recollect-seasonal-kaddish-gathering-3/
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🔔 PROGRAM ALERT 🔔
Simchat Torah Across Brooklyn
TOMORROW - October 24th, 2024
8PM-12AM EDT | Grand Army Plaza
Join us for Brooklyn’s 13th annual opportunity to rejoice, sing, and dance with sacred scrolls. We need it now more than ever before!
Co-Hosted by @labshul @bayridgejc @bklnjews @romemubrooklyn @psjcbrooklyn @cbebk and so many more!
✨See you on Thursday ✨
WANT TO VOLUNTEER?? ➡️ https://volunteersignup.org/ME7YD
More info through the CALENDAR LINK in our bio or by visiting:
https://www.labshul.org/event/simchat-torah-across-brooklyn-2/
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Join us for Unscrolled: We Begin Again to wrap up the High Holy Days with a sacred gathering that weaves Simchat Torah and Shabbat with a ritual of healing, hope and peace.
We will cast a circle of sacred storytelling and live music, marking endings and beginnings, face to face. On this day we’ll gather to gain strength from our ancestral wisdom and from each other as we unscroll the Torah to begin our sacred story again, with new intentions, lighting candles and welcoming Shabbat, celebrating life, choosing peace for all.
We invite you to stay after the ritual for DIY Shabbat dinner/vegetarian potluck. All ages, all faiths. Open, free and accessible to all.
Ritual led by Rabbi Amichai, Naomi Less with Rabbi Annie Lewis, Rabbi Yosef Goldman additional guest ritualists and musicians. Special activities for Children’s Program led by educator Kohenet Stephanie Guedalia. This event is in partnership with The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life.
Friday, October 25th, 2024
5:15PM-7:30PM ET | Brooklyn
🔗🗓️Join us by registering through the CALENDAR LINK in our bio or visiting:
https://www.labshul.org/event/unscrolled-we-begin-again-a-simchat-torah-gathering/
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A dramatic reading of “The BIG BOOK of Creation” created by the attendees of our FamilyLab on the High Holy Days…
read by our talented Spiritual Leader and Director of Family Programming @shirakline and words by talented educators: @meghan_autumn9 & @marialemire
Approachable / Relatable / Digestible / Meaningful… just a few words that come to mind when we think about the age-appropriate programming designed for the youngest and those growing up in our community. Bringing our FACE TO FACE theme for High Holy Days to everyone who joined us.
Ages 0 through B Mitzvah age have the opportunity to engage when it comes to High Holy Days and special programs all year long… like this week’s Family/Lab: In the Sukkah!
🔗Link in bio to register/join the waitlist or visit:
https://www.labshul.org/series/familylab/
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Our giant gratitude to all who co-created these powerful days with us in so many ways, with so much talent and passion – and to all of you who joined us, in NYC and at home – to begin this brave new year together.
Thank you to everyone who joined us in person and online… many meaningful moments were experienced and so much labor of love went into every single detail of the sacred season.
Read our full message through the BLOG link in our bio or visit: www.labshul.org/forward-face-to-face-post-yom-kippur/
If you joined us, please take our survey through the 🔗link in our bio or visit: www.surveymonkey.com/r/WKQGCG8
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