Event listings for Tuesday July 30, 2024
Day Head: Cathy Bowers
Listings on this page:
See recurring weekday schedule for details such as meal times, trad-egal davening, Kids Camp, office hours, and the like.
If the calendar below appears blank, scroll down until you see the events.
You can select categories of events with the little drop-down button next to the word “Agenda”: 
click on individual events to add them to your calendar.
Changing the day in the calendar will not change the listings. See tomorrow Return to Overview
LATE MORNING DAVENING 9:05-10:05am
Feminine Language Shacharit with Jonah Rank Location: Orchard
Canceled (Ask Josh Schreiber if you want access to the siddur Jonah would have used.)
TUESDAY MORNING WORKSHOPS 9:05-10:05am
How to Slack with Josh Soref Location: Wellspring
Learn how to Slack
Grounding and Breathing Techniques with Judith Geller Location: Deck
Learn several quick and easy body-based techniques to help you feel grounded throughout your day. Learn these tricks of the trade, help your nervous system stay regulated, and practice the ones you like whenever and wherever you need them.
Beginning Kippah Crochet with Sue Gulack Location: Citron
Learn several quick and easy body-based techniques to help you feel grounded throughout your day. Learn these tricks of the trade, help your nervous system stay regulated, and practice the ones you like whenever and wherever you need them. Materials fee: $3
Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers): The Big Picture with Joe Rosenstein Location: Vineyard
In this workshop, I will discuss the major themes in Pirkei Avot, and other prominent themes. It is hard to extract the “big picture” from studying Avot because one mishnah usually has little to do thematically with the mishnah that precedes it or the mishnah that follows it.
Song Share with Benj Kamm and Emma Kippley Ogman Location: Tent–Far Side
Share a tune, learn a tune (or several)! We’ll focus on rounds, zipper songs, and layer songs — mostly multi-parts songs without too many words. Bring a song to share — we have a few in mind but the best part will be learning together.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS 3:15-4:15pm
Cultivating Sh’khinah, Divine Presence: Sh’ma Yisrael with Liturgist in Residence, T’mimah Ickovits Location: Deck
Jewish Mantra. It is a declaration of the underlying unity beneath the diversity. Torah tells us to chant it twice daily. The medieval mystic Joseph Gikatilla, in his masterpiece Gates of Light (Sha-arey Orah), teaches that prophets chanted Sh’ma to receive Prophecy (Ruah Hakodesh, Holy Spirit). The six words are related to the six directions of our local cosmos. When a Jew retires for the evening or eternity, tradition points to
Sh’ma as a Jew’s final words.
During this session, we will play with this verse, consider the holographic properties of each word, and work with partners to deepen our experience and cultivate insights into this multivalenced Torah verse.
ASL Prayer Exchange with Noah Strauss Location: Orchard
Yiddish Magical Creatures with Ron Schnurr Location: Citron
Traditional Eastern European Yiddish culture is filled with imps, gremlins and magical spirits of all types. Discover who these khitsoyim (“outsiders”) are, how they are discussed in Talmud, and more.
Two Voice Poems as Prayer with Abby Bellows & Laura Bellows Location: Tent–far side
Friends of Bill self-organized Location: Moon Lounge
Zeitler Workshop with Lisa Huberman & Scott Rechler Location: Palm
TUESDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAMS
Family Folk Dance with the Kamm/Kippley-Ogman Family Location: Tent (weather: Jubilee)
Yoga with Diane Klein Location: Field behind the tent
Games room open self-organized Location: Deck
TUESDAY EVENING PROGRAM 7:30-9pm
Juggling Workshop with Ayal Prouser and Ora Horn Prouser Location: Tent
Join our Timbrel Artists-in-Residents and learn how to juggle! This participatory, accessible program is focused on having fun and learning together. Bring 3 pairs of clean socks and be ready to make mistakes together. Mastered juggling three balls? Try juggling plates, stick flowers and other challenge items!
LATE NIGHT PROGRAMS 9:30-11pm
The Elephant in the Room facilitated by Judith Geller Location: Tent–Far Side
We’ve all gathered at Institute with so many things happening in our lives. We have not met as a community since October 7th, and in addition to our personal lives we have been experiencing the situation in Israel/Palestine. We want to offer a safe place for listening and being listened to, whatever your experience or opinions about what is going on. Using a talking stick, we will each have the opportunity to share our feelings and thoughts and to witness other’s feelings and thoughts. We will have a chance to engage in grounding techniques during the gathering to help us stay present and to be able to witness others’ expressions of their experience. This will not be a conversation, but a witnessing of each other with attention and compassion.
The Elephant in the Room
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.— Kay Ryan