Rosh Chodesh Elul
Sunday, August 24th, 4:30-6:00 PM
We will continue learning about the Four Worlds in Elul and use this as a way to focus on our work in preparing for the High Holidays.
Sunday, August 24th, 4:30-6:00 PM
We will continue learning about the Four Worlds in Elul and use this as a way to focus on our work in preparing for the High Holidays.
Join Or Ahavah for the high holidays. Holiday Fee is $360.00 per person regardless of how many services you attend. Payment must be received by September 1, 2025. Please click the “more” link to go to the form.
Reserve at https://orahavah.org/fundraiser-donation
Sunday, July 20th at 6 p.m., Board meeting via Zoom. The agenda and link will go out Sunday morning.
Please contact Phil at p.shenefelt@att.net if you have anything that you would like included in the agenda. This is a time of transition and we would love your input!
Saturday, July 26th at 7:30 Joy will be offering a fund-raising concert for Or Ahavah on Zoom. Stay tuned for details.
Please Note – Date change from the 9th to the 16th
Saturday, August 16th, at 7:30 PM.. at the Shenefelt home, Shma in the Four Worlds, review, additional study and meditation. Dessert will follow.
September 22nd, Rosh Hashanah Blessing Seder and Dinner at Inga’s home. Stay tuned for details.
The Torah Portion is attached. Zoom link will be sent out on Friday before Shabbat.
Materials will be sent out with zoom link, led by Rabbi Deb
Meditation, home of Inga Nasi, Zoom will be available
More information to be announced.
Below is a list of gatherings for Or Ahavah. Please mark your calendars and rsvp if you think you will be at the gathering. Contact me if you have any questions!
Or Ahavah members only
Free for members, $35 for guests
Join Or Ahavah for a creative gathering.
Please stay tuned for more info because we are still waiting for fee amounts for some of the events.
Below is an updated list of gatherings for Or Ahavah. Please mark your calendars and rsvp if you think you will be at the gathering. I am hoping that we can have our mystical Tu B’Shvat Seder outside on our linai. Please let me know if you are uncomfortable with this and if you are not vaccinated (if I do not already know). And of course, contact me if you have any questions!
Love and Light in this Season of Light,
Rabbi Deb
Candle lighting for Chanukah and meditation on Light; if you want, please have your Chanukkah menorah with candles on your table and we do the candle lighting together. If you do not have a menorah, please have nine tea lights to light. You can use either for the meditation.
Free to community members and also free to our friends as a Chanukah gift! RSVP to OrAhavahTampa@gmail.com by December 23, 2022
Who puts the Fun in Fundraiser? Joy Katzen-Guthrie and her joyful music! This will be a varied concert celebration for the year ahead and include music for the New Year, Gratitude, Israel, Tu B’Shvat, Rosh Chodesh and a smattering of Jewish Feminist Music. Requested donation is $18, $36, $54, $72, $90, or $108. A flyer will more information will be out soon.
Annual Mystical Tu B’Shvat Seder: A gathering brimming with learning, singing, prayer and meditations.
This will be a hybrid gathering. You can join us for our first in person gathering outside on the Shenefelt Lanai or you can join by Zoom. Bring a mask if you are going to join in person.
For those joining by zoom, information about what you will need for the seder will be sent to you upon receipt of your RSVP.
The seder is free for Or Ahavah members. We request a minimum donation of $18 from our friends.
RSVP to OrahavahTampa@gmail.com by January 30, 2023
Food and Fitness from a Jewish Perspective presented by our very own Nutritionist Barbara Freedland. RSVP by March 20 to orahavahtampa@gmail.com
This gathering is free for members and friends.
1st night Passover Seder. Information will follow soon.
Tikkun Leil Shavuot, Special study for the first evening of Shavuot dedicated to healing the world. Information will follow.
I am in conversation with Cathy Lesser Mansfield, the writer and producer of the fabulous play “The Sparks Fly Upward.” She is hoping to do a presentation for Or Ahavah in May or June of 2023 about the development of Nazi Laws as Germany was slipping into fascism from a Democracy. I will keep you posted!
Information about our monthly “Meditation and Check-In” for members only is sent out from Naraiyah. I believe our next meeting is on January 15, 2023 from 4:00 – 5:30 on Zoom. For those who have not been joining in, I want to share with you how awesome, deep and connecting this gathering is for those who attend. It also allows each of us to continue our spiritual practice of compassionate listening.
Evening service: 09.25.2022
7:00 PM- Candle-lighting, Blessings and New Year Meditation
Day service: 09.26.2022
10:00 AM- Includes Torah Reading and Meditative Musaf Experience
Evening: 10.04.2022
4:30 PM- Mikvah Meditation until 5:00 PM
6:30 PM- Kol Nidre Service including Meditation on the Sh’ma.
Day: 10.05.2022
9:00 AM- Wake up with body and release work through Qi Gong
10:00 AM- Morning service begins followed by services throughout the day. Services include special meditations developed for Yom Kippur and a moving Yizkor service
7:20 PM Havdallah, please have challah bread and wine available.
All of the services are virtual on Zoom. There will be several breaks given throughout the day. The cost for all of the holiday services is $350 and reduced rates are available for new-comers. No one is turned away because of financial constraints. Please contact Phil at p.shenefelt@att.net to arrange for reduced rate, financial aid, or a payment plan.
RSVP to Orahavahtampa@gmail.com. Payment is due by Thursday, 09.22.2022. Please make your check payable to Or Ahavah, and mail to Philip Shenefelt 15919 Nottinghill Drive Lutz, FL 33548. If you prefer to pay online through our orahavah.org PayPal donate button, please add 3 percent additional for processing and also e-mail Phil that you have paid. You will receive a link for the services upon receipt of payment. Or Ahavah is a non-profit organization.
Contact Rabbi Deb if you have any questions about the holidays or preparing for them. She can be reached at d.shenefelt@att.net or at 813.728.3194
We hope that you will be able to join us!
Our next gathering is on Sunday, July 10, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. on Zoom. Come and learn about New Chassidic communities and how Or Ahavah looks like one.
Please RSVP to OrAhavahTampa@gmail.com and a zoom link will be sent to you on July 8th.
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