“IGNITE YOUR SOUL’

CHANUKAH SEMINAR

THURSDAY DECEMBER 2– SUNDAY DECEMBER 5, 2010

25-27 KISLEV 5771

  

THURSDAY NITE

4:00-9:00         Registration                                                                 Staff / Front Desk

5:00                 1st night Chanukah Candle lighting                             Ascent Staff / Lounge Area

6:00                 Workshop: The Candle inYou                               Mrs. Shulamit Tilles / Cave

7:30                 Dinner - Orientation                                                 Rabbi Mo & staff / Dining Room

8:30                 Class: Chanukah- What G-d doesn't Know!          R. Izzy Greenberg / Lecture Hall

10:00               Live Chanukah Party with Music, Latkes+Sufganiot (doughnuts), &

                                                           Words of Inspiration                Rabbi Mo, Yonatan & staff / Lounge

 

Friday

8:00 am          Breakfast                                                                    Staff / Dining Area

9:00                 Class: Beware the Chanukah Fanatics!                R. Yerachmiel Tilles / Lecture Hall

10:00               Mystical Tour of Safed                                                Rabbi Mo / Lobby               

1:30                 Mikvah Expedition                                                     ? / Lobby
                                  Women: Walk to the Ari's Kever

2:30                 Talk: “Chanukah, Shabbat, Tsfat and the Kabblists”   Rabbi Shaul Leiter / Lecture Hall

3:30                 Mincha                                                                         Staff / Shul

3:40                 2nd Chanukah Candle lighting                                Staff / Lounge Area

4:00                 Shabbat Candle Lighting                                            ? / Lounge

4:15                 Meal Placements and Orientation                          Rabbi Mo
4:30                  Mystical Kabbalat Shabbat Experience                 & Staff on the Roof
                 Followed by meals with families                                    Meet in the Lobby

10:00               Farbrengen: Chassidic Group Therapy                     R. Moshe Witkes / Dining Area

 

SHABBAT DAY                                                                           

8:00                 Snacks and Hot Drinks                                               Staff / Dining Area

                        Synagogue: *CHECK MAP FOR SHUL OPTIONS

8:30                 Optional Workshop: Prayer Meditation                       ? /Lounge

12:00 pm         Kiddush & Talk: The Secret of 8 And Beyond!        R. Moshe Witkes /
Lecture Hall
1:00               Shabbat Meal @ Ascent                                               ? Family & staff/ Dining Room

2:30                 Library Open-Individual Study Options Available        Staff / Library

3:45                 Mincha  Afternoon Service                                           Rabbi Mo / Ascent shul

4:30                 Third Meal Of the Safed Mystics                                 Rabbi Mo & Staff / Cave

5:30                 Maariv  Evening Service                                               Rabbi Mo /Ascent Shul

5:45                 Musical Havdalah                                                      Rabbi Mo / Lounge               

(7:00-9:00         *Personal Torah Codes                                              Rabbi Simcha Triester / Media Center)

9:15                 Malava Malke:  CHANUKAH PARTY with Latkes,

                            Live Music, Stories, Torah and L’Chaim                 Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles / Cave

 

Sunday

8:00-9 am         Breakfast                                                                 Staff / Dining Area

9:15                 Class:  Why Marry Jewish? (or: Chanukah & Intermarriage)              Rabbi Mo / Library

10:30               Spiritual Nature Hike in the Galilee (Weather Permitting)    Mrs. C.B. Leiter / Front Door

 

HAPPY CHANUKAH &  SHABBAT SHALOM