As tends to be our custom, Moishe House Silver Spring celebrated the holidays in style. After a successful Passover/Birkat Ha'Chamah (blessing of the sun) combo in April, we decided to open our house up to an all night learning session (Tikkun) over Shavuot. I loved this event because it was so community driven: one of our community members spearheaded the food preparation (including 4 homemade cheesecakes!), a good 15 people came prepared to teach something, and everyone came prepared to learn and share. We divided the night into 20 or 30 minute intervals and studied an incredible range of topics, from "reproductive justice and Judaism" to a poem about the Holocaust; "apotheistic Judaism" to hearing stories from one of our community member's recent travels in Southeast Asia, and everything in between. At around 4:30am, a few brave souls ventured out to local synagogues to pray with our greater community, and then we all crashed for a few hours. As always, it was such an honor to be able to provide a safe space for so many people to learn and teach, and I'm so proud that we were able to do it so successfully. And of course, special shout out to Einstein, who came all the way from MH Hoboken to grace us with his presence and knowledge - I hope that marks the beginning of even more MH collaboration...
Happy (Almost) Summer!!!
Aaron, MH Silver Spring
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