Hello Lab/Shul Friends,
What are we already learning about our best selves and about the safer and better world we want to live in and help co-create? What is revealed?
This past weekend’s NY Times caught my attention, not only because of the tragic front page honoring the 100,000 lives lost to COVID-19 so far, but also because of the riveting feature article by Mark Lilla on our current attempts, some bold, some bizarre, at trying to predict and make sense of what’s ahead.
“Human beings want to feel that they are on a power walk into the future, when in fact we are always just tapping our canes on the pavement in the fog…”
It’s on us – individuals, families, communities and nations – to capture the best of what these past months have already revealed to us about essence, priority, selflessness and resilience.
To get some of these critical conversations started we invited over 100 superstars from the Lab/Shul community to join us this Saturday night, ending Shavuot, the Holiday of Revelation, for some collective cane tapping.
Reveal-A-Thon is our alternative annual fundraiser – making sure Lab/Shul stays strong to serve you in the future, and raising funds for COVID relief projects and our #ThrivingArtistsFund.
What is being revealed to us about now, and about next? We’ll explore political projections and populist trends, theology and mental health, recipes and workouts. More than 40 artists are joining us to spotlight creative responses + our team will be up for 24 hours to make this magic happen with lots of coffee.
Lilla writes:
“The post-Covid future doesn’t exist. It will exist only after we have made it. We have no reason to ask what will happen to us. We should ask only what we want to happen, and how to make it happen, given the constraints of the moment.”
Join us to ask questions, engage in conversations and support us towards a more honest, helpful and just future.
Meaningful and delicious Shavuot,
Hope and healing, see you at Sinai,
Rabbi Amichai
