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Hadar National Shabbaton

Deep Roots, Broad Branches

(כעץ שתול על פלגי מים" (תהילים א:ג"
"Like a tree planted by streams of water” (Psalms 1:3)

Friday, November 11 – Sunday, November 13 2022

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 Stamford, CT

November 11-13, 2022 | Stamford, CT

A Unique Shabbat Experience

Spend Shabbat diving into Jewish texts with Hadar faculty and community members, learning new soul-stirring melodies, and connecting with hundreds of people of all ages and Jewish backgrounds.

Learn with Hadar Faculty

Rabbi Tali Adler

Faculty

Rabbi Shai Held

President and Dean

Rabbi Avi Killip

Executive Vice President

Rabbi Micha’el Rosenberg

Faculty

Jeremy Tabick

Faculty

Joey Weisenberg

Founder and Director, Hadar's Rising Song Institute

Yitzhak Bronstein

Director of Maimonides Moot Court Competition

Rabbi Avital Hochstein

President of Hadar Israel

Rabbi Elie Lehmann

Director of Hadar Boston

Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

Director of Tefillah and Music

Rabbi Ethan Tucker

President and Rosh Yeshiva

Dena Weiss

Rosh Beit Midrash / Senior Faculty

Rabbi Goldie Guy

Director of Hadar Chicago

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer

President and CEO

Rabbi Aviva Richman

Rosh Yeshiva

Rabbi Avi Strausberg

Director of National Learning Initiatives

Rabbi Miriam-Simma Walfish

Faculty

Join the Hadar Community

We welcome people from all walks of Jewish life – teens to great-grandparents, people of all denominational backgrounds, from around the country and around the world. Join us!

SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE Preview the Shabbaton Schedule

2:30 PM

Hadar Community Members

Registration Opens

3:00

Hadar Community Members

Pre-Shabbat Activities

Prepare for Shabbat with art, a shiur, or an opportunity to meet fellow Shabbaton attendees through icebreakers and energizers. Our Children & Families team will also be available to greet families and show kids around our kids space.

4:15 PM

Hadar Faculty & Staff

Group Candle Lighting & Welcome

Candle Lighting Stamford: 4:20 pm

4:30 PM

Hadar Community Members

Minchah, Kabbalat Shabbat, and Arvit

5:00 PM

Families with Young Children

Kids' Dinner

6:00 PM

Hadar Community Members

Dinner

7:30 PM

Hadar Faculty & Staff

“Our Deep Roots” - Shiurim with Hadar Faculty

Explore the Torah that has sustained us over Jewish history, and in particular, over the past three years of uncertainty and upheaval. These shiurim will include highlighted sessions from our Virtual Beit Midrash. If you have been learning online with us, this is your chance to learn with your favorite teacher in-person or discover someone new. Shiurim include: *The Covenantal Process - Rabbi Yitz Greenberg *The Transformative Power of Torah and Personal Revelation - Rabbi Avi Strausberg *Unlikely Origins of Prayer - Rabbi Aviva Richman *Empathy and Imagination: Can we really understand the pain of others? - Dena Weiss *Perhaps the Matter is For Me: Why Do We Learn Torah? - Rabbi Tali Adler Plus shiurim from Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, Rabbi Shai Held, and Rabbi Avital Hochstein

9:00 PM

Hadar Community Members

Tisch/Oneg programming

10:30 PM

Hadar Community Members

Late Night Programming

7:00 AM

Hadar Community Members

Hashkamah Minyan

7:30 AM

Hadar Community Members

Breakfast

7:45 AM

Hadar Community Members

Pre-Davening Learning Options

8:30 AM

Hadar Community Members

Shacharit, Torah Reading, Musaf

11:00 AM

Hadar Community Members

Kiddush

11:45 AM

Hadar Community Members

“Like a Tree Planted by Streams of Water”

In pre-assigned small groups facilitated by Hadar Faculty and Kollel members, we will all explore the same passage from Pirkei Avot. You’ll have a chance to meet someone new through havruta learning, and discuss your findings with friends, family, or someone new over lunch.

1:00 PM

Hadar Community Members

Lunch

2:00 PM

Hadar Community Members

Shiurim from around the Hadar Community

The Hadar community has incredibly deep roots and broad branches, and these sessions are an opportunity to explore the depth and breadth of the Hadar community. *'That Place:' Initial Perspectives On Queer Moments in Hilchot Niddah - Avigayil Halpern, Hadar Kollel *Tell Wisdom, You Are My Sister: Divine Sisterhood in Midrash - Yael Jaffe, Hadar Kollel *Hillel on the Roof (Talmud Yoma 35b) - Allison Cook & Orit Kent, Founders & Directors, Pedagogy of Partnership And more!

3:00 PM

Hadar Community Members

Schmooze Break & City Meet-Ups

Schmooze with old friends, meet a new friend, play a board game, learn in the Beit Midrash, or take a nap!

4:45 PM

Hadar Community Members

Minchah

4:30 PM

Hadar Community Members

Seudah Shlishit

5:00 PM

Hadar Community Members

Seudah Shlishit Singing

5:45 PM

Hadar Community Members

Arvit and Havdalah

6:30 PM

Hadar Community Members

Programming Slot

Led by Hadar faculty and community members, these sessions are a chance to discuss issues on your mind with like-minded individuals, debate in a Mini Moot-Beit Din, move your body with Israeli dance and more.

7:30 PM

Hadar Community Members

Melaveh Malkeh (Dinner)

9:00 PM

Hadar Community Members

Singing Gathering with Joey Weisenberg and Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

10:30 PM

Hadar Community Members

Alumni Beit Cafe

7:00 AM

Families with Young Children

Early Breakfast Available

7:00 AM

Hadar Community Members

Pre-Shacharit Options

Sing, move your body, or learn in one of these early morning sessions.

8:00 AM

Hadar Faculty & Staff

Shacharit

8:45 AM

Hadar Community Members

Breakfast

9:45 AM

Hadar Community Members

Keynote Slot

“Our Broad Branches” Keynote Address from Rabbi Aviva Richman and Breakout Sessions What does Jewish community look like when our most deeply-held values can strike deep roots in Jewish texts and tradition? We’ll explore where Torah can take us through breakout panels on a variety of topics, facilitated by Hadar faculty members. Breakout sessions include explorations of Tefillah, Halachah, Social Justice, and more.

11:45 AM

Hadar Community Members

Closing Session

12:30 PM

Hadar Community Members

Minchah and Lunch To-Go

Share in Song

As a community, we will join in both joyful prayer and meditative song throughout the Shabbaton as a way of connecting to our spiritual selves and to each other.

Our Venue

Hilton Stamford

1 First Stamford Pl,

Stamford, CT 90001

The hotel is reachable by Metro North train from New York City’s Grand Central and 125th St Stations, as well as by Amtrak train to Stamford.  Directions from major airports can be found on the hotel website.

 

 

 

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