End of Day 5

We spent the last of day 5 celebrating Shabbat at Rabbi David Levin-Kruss and his wife, Ayala Levin-Kruss's home, along with their lovely three young sons and several students from the Pardes Institute. It was a wonderful meal with a Moroccan flair, but more important was the time that we spent together. We learned a song that one student's father had taught her to sing as they prepared for the Sabbath - it had an Appalachian feel to it, which was both lovely and haunting. Another student shared a small homily on the daily Torah passage, while still others led the prayers and broke the bread. At the end of the evening, Rabbi Levin-Kruss graciously allowed me to bring home a copy of the book that the prayers and readings are from - it's like a Haggadah, but is called something different - the name is not on the book itself, or I would take it from there. At any rate, it is a lovely ritual, the sharing of the Sabbath meal and one that I'm glad we had the opportunity to participate in together.