Kulanu Baaretz: Shabbaton in Renana!!

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Shabbaton in Renana!!

This shabbos we had the opportunity to spend with one student's relatives in Renana. We had such a wonderful weekend. We got there early enough to go for a quick dip in the pool.

Some of us were had our relatives come visit with us as well.

Once we got ready for shabbos we went to shul where we enjoyed the beautiful davening of Yehuda Katz of Reva L'Sheva. Although it was long, we did enjoy the Carlebach style davening.
Friday dinner was fun and delicious. We ate ALOT and enjoyed meeting all the different relatives and friends that were spending shabbos together.

Shabbos morning, we got up very early for minyan (not all of us :). Lunch was once again plentiful and delicious. We had a nice shabbos afternoon nap and then went over to Maya's (our tour guide) house for seudat slishit. We ended shabbos with a beautiful havdalah and melave malka.

Motzei shabbos, we hit the mall and got some dinner.

We finally realized that vacation was over and we needed to get back to Shluchot. After all, Sunday is a work day in Israel!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: what a nice shabbos, they must have had a great time.; December 2, 2007 at 2:19 PM
Anonymous said...: Happy Chanukah! Do you have any special plans? I can't wait to hear about Chanukah in Israel...

Carol Katz; December 3, 2007 at 11:07 AM

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Kenny"s Thoughts on Kulanu Baaretz

I am most proud of how the kibbutz has opened their hearts and homes to Kulanu. People are genuinely concerned, supportive and willing to lend a helping hand wherever they can. The students are a part of this community, and they are truly standing on their own, without shadows, because they don't need them. At work, they have to produce, just like anyone else and they are there as true contributors, not just as a chesed. So whatever they do has to count but at the same time, there needs to be support and understanding of their needs. I am also so proud to be a part of a program where students are so quickly learning to be independent. I see kids helping kids out, waking up each other to go to davening. I see a student who at the beginning of the program, when he was the only one who arrived at davening on time, said, "Well I'm here, that's all that matters". Three weeks later, when he was still the only one there at 8:00, he went back to the dorm, with his tefilin on, to wake up the rest of his peers. This shows a true sense of being a part of community. And that's really what makes the world go round. That's what makes us survive as a community. We are seeing students become a part of a community in the real sense of the word.