Submission #22076 by Temple Israel Men'S Club - Charlotte, NC (1709)
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Men's Club Shabbat Havdallah
Men's Club Shabbat
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For years, our Men’s Club Shabbat ended after Saturday’s kiddush. With the limited in-person opportunities caused by our leaderships’ response to Covid, we were looking for more ways to get together. What better way than an outdoor Havdallah service?
We chose an accessible location at a member’s community picnic shelter (member’s back yard, synagogue parking lot, town park, anything would work). One guy brought snacks, cups, and water, one guy brought cigars to share, 2-3 guys brought bottles to share, and we asked people to bring the havdallah sets we had distributed with their Men’s Club Shabbat gift bags. There were mainly men, a few women, some kids (who went home when the cigars were lighted). What was perhaps the best part was there were guys from the neighborhood who came over who were members of MC but this was their first event, one guy who wasn’t a member but will join (he doesn’t belong to our shul), and even a curious (ok, nosy) neighbor. We had a brief discussion of havdallah, a nice service, and then 3 hours of schmoozing.
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