After preparing for Shabbat, we welcomed it in as a
community with a service full of Ruach and excitement. Friday night dinner
filled with chicken and potatoes caused quite a buzz amongst us and after an
elaborate meal, we entered an ethical debate on different aspects of our daily
lives such as the difference of doing perfect actions with bad intentions and
doing bad actions with good intentions which we went to bed reflecting on.
Once awoken from
our well deserved sleep, we attended davening and then kiddush. Next we played
many fun, shabbat-friendly games including truth or dare with mentos and
finding five things we all have in common.
After lunch we did a Tribe activity on improvements
within our separate communities with Gaby who joined us with her family for Shabbat and runs the Tribe Israel office.
Leading on, we split
into two groups to have an interesting discussion on either the trade off with
Gilad Shalit for 1027 prisoners who were charged for terrorist crimes, or the
issue of self image and who perceives someone as a bad person. This made us all
think and reflect on how this affects our lives as the youth of today and what
we could do to improve the way in which people are stereotyped massively.
A rocky hike was next, where we made our way to the top
of a beautiful viewing point. Some of us made
our way to a nearby Sephardi shul for Minchah to experience other local
communities.
Once we all arrived back together, we sat in a circle and had a
spiritual sing-song, storytelling session as Shabbat left us which then lead
onto Havdalah which was so emotional and amazing to be able to spend it with
such fantastic people.
We then changed into
slightly warmer clothes to prepare for an intense and competitive version of
capture the flag which ended up with pizza and chips. What a great end to a great day!!!
By Kezia Blakeley
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