Tu B'Shevat Seminar: Returning to Your Roots
Feb. 10-13 / 12-15 Shevat

Schedule:

Friday  
1:15 Arrival & registration
1:45 Welcome!
2:00 A Tree-Mend-Us Teaching / Rav Yehoshua Kahan
3:15 Break to prepare for Shabbat
4:45 Shabbat Candlelighting in the Beit Midrash (Shabbat starts 5:01)
5:00 Tefillah at the Bat Ayin Beit Knesset
Dinner with Rav Mechael and Rebbetzin Chana Bracha Siegelbaum
   
Shabbat  
8:00 Tefillah at the Bat Ayin Beit Knesset, followed by Second Meal with Bat Ayin families
1:30 Tu B'Shevat & Tikkun Eretz Yisrael / Rav Daniel Kohn at his home
2:30 Break
5:00 Seudah Shlishit at B'erot
6:15 Havdalah (Shabbat ends at 6:01)
8:00 Music Program-Songs of the Land / Rachel Ferency
   
Sunday  
8:30 Light breakfast
9:00 Women as the Tree of Life: Song and Movement / Devorah Gila Berkowitz (please bring pants)
10:20 Why Tu B'Shevat? Halachic Perspectives / Rav Mechael Siegelbaum
11:45 Tu B'Shevat Basket Weaving
1:00 Wholesome Lunch & Break
2:30 The Healing Nature of Nature / Rav Yehoshua Rubin
4:00 Receiving Spiritual Nourishment & Healing from the Land / Avraham Shira
5:15 Preparations for Tu B'Shevat Seder
6:00 Mystical Tu B'Shevat Seder
   
Monday  
8:30 Light breakfast
9:00 Role of Trees and Planting in the Torah / Rebbetzin Chana Bracha Siegelbaum
10:30 Tree Planting
11:45 Tree of Life: Art Workshop
1:00 Farewell! (optional make-your-own-lunch-to-go)

What to bring: sleeping bag or sheets and blankets, pillow, towel, toiletries, warm winter clothing and pajamas, pants for yoga, raincoat, winter/rain boots (it may be muddy), and Shabbat candles.

Getting to Bat Ayin:

By Egged Bus 164 (approximately 45 minute ride):

CHANGE IN EGGED ROUTE!!! BUS 164 NOW LEAVES FROM JERUSALEM'S MALCHA MALL BUS STATION. BUS 5 WILL TAKE YOU FROM THE CENTRAL BUS STATION DIRECTLY TO THE MALCHA MALL BUS STATION. ALTERNATIVELY, BUSES 4, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 ALL GO TO MALCHA MALL BUS STATION.

Friday: Jerusalem to Bat Ayin, 12:45 PM

Motzei Shabbat: Bat Ayin to Jerusalem, 10:45

Monday: Bat Ayin to Jerusalem, 1:45 PM

By car, please click here for directions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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