The Origination of Chazak Reiut

Hischazkus Maariv @ YU

After a strong week at The Stollel 3.0, the chevra has decided to start a weekly "Stollel" maariv.

The first maariv is this Wed. 1.26.2011 @ 10pm in Glueck 416.

Thanks and Hope to see you there!

ProjectRecharge 2.5: Motzei Shabbos and Sunday

With שבת just leaving us and our souls still flying high, the חברה gathered to say goodbye as some of עולם needed to head home. Once they left, the rest of the gathered in the living room and had a nice kumzits and rocked out for a bit. In the middle of the kumzits Popowitz broke the news of the impending snow storm which majorly bugged some people out. But all was good, everyone calmed down and eventually rocked out with some major Sohn jams and Bagel Cheese jams. Dani gave us a rendition of how Moshe Dayan lost his eye and told us about his friend Rold Gold and Tzidka's and Notorious G.I.D. taught us about "Taka U'Shbeit - We 'Aint Stopping". We learnt two new ניגונים, Keep On Truckin' written by the Apt. 41 gang and the L'Chaim Song. The jamming went on into the late hours of the night and we all retreated to our respectful corners of the house. While en route to their corner Dani and Tzidkas thought that it would be an amazing idea to slide down the stares on a spare mattress. The plan worked out well up until Tzidkas rolled down the stairs leaving the mattress behind (ask him to show you the battle scars.)

In the middle of the night MuLu and Sendy figured it would be best to leave as they felt that we were going to get snowed in - thanks again Popowitz for the bug out.

Anyways as the sun rose on our final morning in Lake Harmony we awoke and quickly cleaned the house and then decided it was time to pray. Ackerman led us off with Tzidkas finishing us off with a beautiful happy minyan. We ate a quick breakfast and cleaned the remainder of the house and packed all out stuff into the cars.

We said our final goodbyes and then it was time to head into the blizzard that would befall us on our journey back to civilization...

Shout Out's From Pittsburgh

Ed. Note: Thanks to Jakey Berman for the videos. 

Save Your Cup Day!

ProjectRecharge 2.5: Shabbos!

With the sun setting and שבת coming upon us we all gathered in the living room for קבלת שבת led by our cantor extraordinaire and principle, Josh "Buns" Silverman. After the completion of services we all gathered around the table and sat down for the סעודה which we had prepared earlier. During the meal it was announces that Dani's party, רעוּת, and Dan's political party, חזק, were combining forces to create a new political party name חזק רעוּת. The meal was completed with a טיש filled with beautiful ניגונים and a lot of candy. At that late hour it was time to call it night...

שבת morning we woke up and were graced with a שיעור from Rav Judah (מקומות can be found by clicking HERE). We then began davening שחרית led by Azriel Tzvi Tzadok Friedman which was on one of the highest levels most of חברה the has ever seen. As is the norm, שחרית led into קריאת התורה which was split amongst the עולם. It was suggested that on this Recharge the עליות be auctioned off. The items sponsored ranged from number of hugs to random strangers to number of bottles of wine for פורים. The big auction was for הגבה & גלילה, money to be donated to בני היכלא דכסיפין in order to help fund the writing of a ספר תורה. Each person's bid was his donation to this major project in the end it was the Brooks/Mutty team that sponsored the most money by donating $420. [Ed. Note: A list of all the donors can be found on the side bar of this blog, and if you are interested in donating please contact Rav Judah or Adam Friedman.] Davening was finished with מוסף which was  led by Josh "Buns" Silverman  at which point it was time to sit down to lunch as it was 2 PM and we were starving. At this point we realized we had run out of some essential items such as plates and cups and had none left for further meals. It was decided, solely by Azriel Tzvi Tzadok, that each person was required to save his cup from the previous meal and if he were to lose said cup he would have to pay a tax, the Save Your Cup (SYC) tax, to the ספר תורה to the fund. 

After lunch there was a short break, where some of the guys decided to go for a walk around Lake Harmony and we were graced with another שיעור from Rav Judah (מקומות can be found by clicking HERE). At this time we davened מנחה and raised some more money for the ספר תורה fund. We sat down to שלוש סעודות and ate the remainder of the food and rocked out with tons of זמירות into the late night way past צאת. Jakie Berman made the ultimate sacrifice and ended his שבת at the normal hour in order to turn off the lights to enhance the mood. Late into the night it was decided that it was time to end שבת as some of the חברה had to get home, thus ending arguably the greatest שבת ever. Stay tuned to find out what went down on מוצ''שק and the rest of the weekend...

Ed Note: If you have made a commitment to donate funds, please do so accordingly in proper time. Thanks.