Social Action Kallah Feb 20-21

So this is me catching up on my blogging because I haven't had time to in the last few days. Here is one of a few entrees I am going to do today.

Anyways, this past weekend I went to an amazing Social Action Kallah in Madison, Wisconsin.On Friday night the Minnesota bus made it to Madison at 6 pm. This was one of the few times the Minnesota bus has arrived on time. That night we attended services with the congregation. After the service, I talked to Rabbi Biatch about my mentorship and becoming a rabbi. We talked about why he wanted to be rabbi and what things I could do in my mentorship. Afterwards, the group received their housing assignments ( I was with Dana Joseph). I also hung out with Cassie Frankel, Sabrina Recnick and a few other people. Here is a few pictures of us.

The theme of the weekend was Naaseh V'Nishman, to do than to listen. This theme came from last week's Torah portion Mishpatim which set aside 53 laws that related to social action. The introduction program invovled reading a list of ridiculous laws from other states and determining if they were real or not. Another program involved reading some of the 53 laws given in the Torah portion and revising them to modern days laws. Another program invovled examining the different levels of social action, written by Miamonidies, and putting them in the correct order.

On Saturday I did my social action activity. Before of course we ate Rocky Ricocos ( You can't go to Madison without eating there). For my social action activity I chose to help children at an art festival make dolls for three hours. It was very fun and I got to make a doll of my own. Here is a picture of my doll and a friends doll. My doll has a babushka.

After I did my social action activity, I went to dinner at the Nitty Gritty. I had a really good hamburger. The evening program was going to a Madison hockey game at the Khols Center. Madison lost to Denver 5-0 but I still had a lot of fun. It was a really nice arena.

Overall the weekend was a lot of fun. I learned about that week's Torah portion and the levels of social action. As a closing program each social action group presented which level they thought their project was. My groups project was the four level. After the Kallah I had a five hour bus ride back to Minneapolis and lots of homeworking waiting for me but the Kallah was definitely worth it.