Shabbaton Retreat
with Rabbi Olivier BenHaim
Friday, May 15th - Saturday, May 16
Imagine a day, a full 24 hour day, where you could embark on an inner journey of deep spiritual exploration. A journey that would open your mind, heal your heart and nourish your soul. An inner journey.
Imagine that to embark on such journey, you wouldn't even have to leave the comfort of your own home. All that would be required is for you to make your home a temple-for-a-day and transform time itself into a sacred container, into Shabbat.
That journey would include spaces for meditation, sacred learning, singing, chanting, silence, mindfulness and so much more. It would be taken alone but shared in community. You could participate as much or as little as you'd like, you could join in for parts of the day and sit other times out.
This is the journey we are inviting you to partake in. A 24-hr Shabbaton Retreat starting Friday evening, May 15th, at 6:30 PM and ending after havdalah, Saturday evening at 6:30PM.
Rabbi Olivier will be our guide on this journey. He will lead a deeply meditative Kabbalat Shabbat service to open our Shabbaton Friday evening, and invite us on Saturday to enter spaces for meditation, sacred text study, spiritual teaching, as well as Q&A sessions to help us deepen our meditation practice.
Won't you join us?
If you do join us, we will be creating the container for our journey via Zoom. Our Kabbalat Shabbat service, Friday evening and Sacred Text Study Saturday morning will be open to all and live streamed on Bet Alef's Facebook page.
If you will be joining us for the rest of the Shabbaton, we invite you to register now, online, and make a free-will donation as Rabbi Olivier is offering this unique Shabbaton Retreat at no cost.
At the same time, we recognize that many are facing new financial situations and may be unable to afford making a donation.
Please e-mail [email protected]. It is always our policy at Bet Alef that no one is ever turned away for lack of funds.