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.
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