NHC WINTER RETREAT 2016 REGISTRATION FORM NATIONAL HAVURAH COMMITTEE Registrant 1’s Name NEW ENGLAND WINTER RETREAT Day Phone CAMP RAMAH, PALMER, MA Evening Phone DECEMBER 16-18, 2016 Email Home Address Studying Torah and celebrating a musical Carlebach-style Kabbalat service begin our weekend together. Friday continues with *Course Preferences dinner, singing, and study sessions. On Registrant 2’s Name Saturday and Sunday, participate in spirited Day Phone prayer, walk at the lake, study accessible texts, Evening Phone learn and sing new songs, stretch your body and Email your mind. Home Address Camp Ramah in New England is located just

outside of Palmer, MA, a few miles north of exit *Course Preferences 8 off the Mass. Turnpike. It is about 75 minutes Names and Ages of Children from either , MA or Hartford, CT, 90  I would like to share a room with: ______minutes from Albany, NY or Providence, RI, and  I need a ride __to / __from the Retreat. about 3 hours from New York City.  I can offer a ride to ____ people from my area. Have them call me. From where? ______When? ______The site includes an indoor recreation facility, We will confirm your registration by email unless you check the box below. lakefront, and wooded walking paths, informal lounges, seminar rooms, a state-of-the-art Beit  I don’t have email. Please send a printed confirmation by US Mail. Midrash complex, a Judaic library, and a prayer  If you have special dietary, accessibility, or other requirements, please include space. Accommodations are simple, a note describing your needs. comfortable, and fully winterized. Single rooms

and "motel-style" rooms are available. Meals FEE SCHEDULE – REGISTER BY NOV 21 TO AVOID THE LATE FEE are kosher, with vegetarian options.

Program, Room, and Meals Fee Cost # Total Courses are scheduled on Friday night, Saturday Adult, Over Age 29, NHC members $195 afternoon, Saturday evening, and Sunday Adult, Over Age 29, non-NHC members $225 morning. A Saturday night talent show and musical programs with singer/song writer Rahel Adult, College Student or thru age 29, NHC members $125 Limor complete the weekend. A final schedule Adult, College Student or thru Age 29, non-members $155 will be available when you arrive. The retreat Child, Age 2 through High School $ 65 ends after lunch on Sunday. Visit Child, Ages 0 to 1 $ 0 http://havurah.org/institute/ne-retreat/ for details and complete course descriptions. Private Bedroom Surcharge $110 “Motel-type” Suite (limited avail.) Surcharge $175 *Course Preferences. To assist in scheduling, Towel/Linen Rental $ 14 please list the numbers of four courses that Commuter’s Program Fee $ 95 each registrant would most like to take. A final schedule will be provided when you arrive. (See Commuter’s Meal Fee (per person per meal) $ 15 reverse side for brief course descriptions.) Subtotal: **Insurance. With an additional “insurance” **Optional Insurance ( +10% of Subtotal) payment of 10%, fees may be applied to the next NHC Winter Retreat in the event that Optional Individual NHC Membership $ 40 weather or serious illness prevents you from Optional Family NHC Membership $ 80 attending. Late Fee (after November 21) $ 25 Tax-Deductible Contribution To register, complete this form and send it, with your check, payable to NHC New England Total Payment: Retreat, c/o Steve Lewis, 25 Ellison Road, VOLUNTEER Newton, MA 02459. We cannot accept on-site  Help with Friday Registration Help with Services registrations. Please return your form by  Help coordinate Torah Readers  Friday or Saturday Afternoon November 21 to avoid the late fee.  Help arrange rides  Shabbat Morning  Help make phone calls or assist with  Saturday Ma-ariv or Havdalah Questions? Contact your retreat co-chairs: Steve Lewis 617-332-3496  logistics before the retreat Read __ Torah or __ Haftarah Mark Frydenberg 781-893-7312  Help with Kids' Program  Other (Tell us!) [email protected]  Help with Closing Program ______

BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTIONS – See complete course descriptions online at http://havurah.org/institute/ne-retreat/

❶ DO OUR PETS HAVE SOULS? Do animals explore 3 texts and discuss what the answers angelology for harvesting and spiritual have souls and minds? Descartes and the do for us as individuals and as a people. deepening. civilization that followed him emphatically say, no! Looking at the Torah, the early midrash, Aliza Arzt is a long-time teacher at NHC David Evan Markus received his rabbinic and early Christians of the Antiochean school, retreats. ordination from ALEPH and serves as co-Rabbi we will explore our love the non-human and of Temple Beth-El of City Island, New York, NY. for Nature itself. ❽ BIBLE STORIES YOU DIDN'T LEARN IN HEBREW SCHOOL We will read several totally ⓯ LET IN THE LIGHT: A HANUKAH David Seidenberg is a Rabbi and author of compromising texts from the Torah and the WORKSHOP OF INNER LIGHT Inspired by Rav “ and Ecology: God’s Image in the Prophets. Kook, this experiential workshop encourages More-Than-Human World.” you to look within your body to discover Ronnie Levin holds a graduate degree in Bible. where your inner light is stored. Discover a ❷ AN EYE FOR AN EYE: JUSTICE IN CASES OF simple routine that showcases the ancient PERSONAL INJURY Leviticus 24 claims that ❾ RESPECTING THE SOURCES OF LIFE A healing modalities of QiGong, Jin Shin Jyutsu, those who inflict physical injury on another common theme unites some of the puzzling and meditative breathing. should be punished "an eye for an eye." We mitzvot and verses: respect for the sources of will explore one rabbinic response to this text. life. We will also see what's missing from Cherina Eisenberg is a certified energy healer. halakhah that is implicit in these verses, and Her website is www.cherinaeisenberg.com Miriam-Simma Walfish is a doctoral student look toward a renewed ethos of sustainability. in Talmud at Harvard. ⓰ BE “TAMIM” (WHOLEHEARTED) WITH David Seidenberg is creator of neohasid.org. YOUR GOD, VS “V’AHAVTA” (LOVE) YOUR ❸ A PSALM FOR ALL OCCASIONS: "ADONAI He lives in Northampton MA. GOD IS MY SHEPHERD" Psalm 23 is recited on the Deuteronomy/ Dvarim 18:13 calls on us to “Be wildly disparate occasions of funerals and ❿ THANKFUL BEFORE YOU We'll study and wholehearted with your God.” What does it Shabbat. What is this Psalm really about? daven prayers of praise and thanksgiving, and mean to be "wholehearted?" and how does it How do specific words reflect the meaning of then write our own. compare to the command in Deuteronomy 6:5 the psalm? How does one psalm serve two to “love” your God. Tease out what this such different occasions? Rachel Barenblat is author of 70 faces: Torah quintessential verse can mean and how we poems (Phoenicia, 2011) and Open My Lips might design our personal practice to fulfill Aliza Arzt is a member of Havurat Shalom. (Ben Yehuda, 2016), among others. this commandment.

❹ TORAH FOR "FLESH AND BLOOD" This ⓫ FOUR WORLDS AND TEN SFIROT Hesed, Rayzl Feuer is a Mashpiah Ruchanit (Spiritual workshop will explore instances where the G'vurah, Netzach, Hod: Learn how the ten Counselor) who leads the “PNAI shORe” rabbis describe Torah as having effects on the Divine Emanations are not only the way that Havurah on the shoreline of . physical bodies of those who engage with it. God relates to the world and the world relates to God, but how they are also a lens through ⓱ THE SHEMA AND THE MYSTICAL ASCENT Miriam-Simma Walfish is director of Boston's which we can get insights into our OF ISAAC THE BLIND We will study and Teen Beit Midrash program. relationships and how we walk through life. experience the mystical practice of Isaac the Blind, who used the Shema as a mystical ❺ THE ART OF SPIRITUAL EATING Why does Susan Gulack is an explorer of the spiritual, ascent. the type of food we eat matter? Beyond intellectual, emotional and physical worlds , this workshop examines the practical through prayer and study, art and music. Rachel Barenblat serves as rabbi of and spiritual implications of cooking and Congregation Beth in North Adams, MA, eating. ⓬ OBSTACLES TO BELIEVING IN GOD We and as co-chair of ALEPH. Find her online at will discuss our obstacles to believing in God, velveteenrabbi.com. Cherina Eisenberg received her Rabbinical and talk about the characterizations of God in ordination through ALEPH, and serves as which we find it difficult to believe. David Evan Markus serves as co-chair, with Cantorial Soloist and Adult Educator at Temple Rachel Barenblat, of ALEPH. Sinai in Brookline, MA. Joseph Rosenstein is a former chair of the National Havurah Committee. ⓲ METAPHORS OF PREGNANCY Look at ❻ REBBE NACHMAN ON FAITH AND MUSIC original Hasidic texts that develop metaphors Rebbe Nachman teaches about transcending ⓭ REASONS FOR BELIEVING IN GOD We will of pregnancy in connection with the words and concepts, and embracing melody, discuss our reasons for believing in God, and interaction between humans and God. in order to alleviate crises of faith, and to will talk about the characterizations of God in experience the Void in a holy way rather than which we find it possible to believe. Carl Woolf's interests include music-making, in existential anguish. davening, movement and text-study. Joseph Rosenstein is the author of and Carl Woolf teaches mystic meditation. Machzor Eit Ratzon (newsiddur.org) ⓳ NEEDLE FELTED KIPPOT Make a needle felted Kippah. A $5 materials fee is payable to ❼ ETERNAL VS. EPHEMERAL How can we ⓮ JEWISH APPROACHES TO ANGELS Angels the instructor. ephemeral humans hope to have any figure prominently in the Jewish canon, Jewish relationship with the eternal God? We will liturgy and theology. We will explore a Susan Gulack is a rabbi and chaplain from breadth of authentic approaches to Jewish Albany, NY.