By: Brooke Schickman
What a relaxing Shabbat! Saturday morning really was a breeze. We all finally got the chance to sleep in a little instead of a 7 AM Kima (wake up call)! To start our days we all got split up and went to different families homes for shabbas lunch. What an incredible experience it was to be able to go and experience having an authentic shabbas lunch with an Israeli family in the holy land. With just a short walk all of us were apart of a new family for the afternoon. With tons of amazing food, shabbas songs, and prayer, our lunches were definitely amazing!
After all our Shabbos lunches we all met up at the hotel for an afternoon session where we got to sit with rabbi and ask any questions about Judaism that we wanted. This was very interesting to see the kinds of things people wanted to ask and learn about. It turned out to be a very informative and inspiring session.
We then had a beautiful Havdalah ceremony and lit the Menorah together to usher in he first night of Chanukah! (We each got our own Menorah to light)
Following this was a little bit of free time before we had a guest speaker from Gift of Life come and talk to us about joining their registry. Gift of Life is an organization that matches bone marrow and stem cell donors with people who really need transfusions and donations. Lots of students on our bus decided to sign up and swab to help get involved!
After our gift of life seminar, we went out for a night on Ben Yehuda Street. There was food, shopping, some places to kick back, relax, and get some drinks. Everyone had an amazing time with whatever they did, and loved our night out in Jerusalem!!
What a relaxing Shabbat! Saturday morning really was a breeze. We all finally got the chance to sleep in a little instead of a 7 AM Kima (wake up call)! To start our days we all got split up and went to different families homes for shabbas lunch. What an incredible experience it was to be able to go and experience having an authentic shabbas lunch with an Israeli family in the holy land. With just a short walk all of us were apart of a new family for the afternoon. With tons of amazing food, shabbas songs, and prayer, our lunches were definitely amazing!
After all our Shabbos lunches we all met up at the hotel for an afternoon session where we got to sit with rabbi and ask any questions about Judaism that we wanted. This was very interesting to see the kinds of things people wanted to ask and learn about. It turned out to be a very informative and inspiring session.
We then had a beautiful Havdalah ceremony and lit the Menorah together to usher in he first night of Chanukah! (We each got our own Menorah to light)
Following this was a little bit of free time before we had a guest speaker from Gift of Life come and talk to us about joining their registry. Gift of Life is an organization that matches bone marrow and stem cell donors with people who really need transfusions and donations. Lots of students on our bus decided to sign up and swab to help get involved!
After our gift of life seminar, we went out for a night on Ben Yehuda Street. There was food, shopping, some places to kick back, relax, and get some drinks. Everyone had an amazing time with whatever they did, and loved our night out in Jerusalem!!
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