Havurah Rosh Hashanah 2020

We are looking up! How do we take this year and turn it into good, growth for ourselves and for our community. Learn and think with us as we bring in and celebrate a fresh New Year.

Saturday, September 19, 2020
Henrietta Barnet School, London, United Kingdom

Havurah Rosh Hashanah 2020

We are looking up! How do we take this year and turn it into good, growth for ourselves and for our community. Learn and think with us as we bring in and celebrate a fresh New Year.

Saturday, September 19, 2020
Henrietta Barnet School, London, United Kingdom

What you need to know

HAVURAH 2020 ROSH HASHANAH CELEBRATIONS

19th September 2020 (2pm - 5pm)
Henrietta Barnet School, Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11 7BN

הַזֹּרְעִים בְּדִמְעָה,    בְּרִנָּה יִקְצֹרוּ
What we sow in tears, we will reap in joy.
PSALMS 126:5

This year has challenged us all, come and join us to kickstart this Jewish New Year in style. We are looking up! How do we take this year and turn it into good, growth for ourselves and for our community. Learn and think with us as we bring in and celebrate a fresh New Year. 

To ensure all our safety we've introduced the following:

  • Allocated 2 well ventilated indoor spaces and an outdoor space to support social distancing
  • Hand sanitiser will be available at entrances, exits and session spaces
  • Any food and drink at the event will be wrapped or boxed in sealed containers 
  • 25 people max in each of the sessions, 50 adults on site in total 
  • All people asked to socially distance and wear face-masks wherever possible
  • Children should remain socially distanced wherever possible
  • Children to bring warm clothes, waterproofs and blankets for children's activities which will largely be run outside

Costs (children are free):

  • Members: £15 per adult 
  • Non-members: £25 per adult 

Concessions are available if you are unable to pay the fee. Please contact us.

Click here to become a Havurah member and support our community throughout the year.

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Agenda

(These are adult sessions. Separate children's sessions will be run at the same time)


SESSION 1
2:30-3:30PM


OPTION 1: Faith, Meaning, Beginning Again with Ben Fromson

It is hard to engage with the ritual of Rosh Hashanah without often bumping into God. Yet, talk of God can make many of us walk in the other direction. Join this session reflecting on some of the work of Rabbi Louis Jacobs about the emotional nature of faith, and provoke the possibility that the quest for God is worth returning to. 

Ben Fromson studied at Yeshivat Ma’ale Gilboa, Pardes, Hadar and the Aquinas Institute of Ireland. He studied philosophy at Leeds University and often presents at Limmud. Ben works at Jami, a Jewish mental health charity.


OPTION 2: Tearing at the heart strings, breaking from the old and into the new with Rabbi Oliver Spike Joseph and Rachel Sklan

What a year it has been, wherever you have been, its been big with great highs and lows. In this year our mental health and our resilience has been tested like never before. We will sit with some of the themes of the year gone past, examine and process finding strength processing together.

Rachel Sklan is a founder member of the Havurah and Deputy Chief Executive of Masorti Judaism, she is a teams and communications trainer and a trainee group analyst. 

Rabbi Oliver Spike Joseph is the founding rabbi of the Havurah and currently also works for New North London Synagogue. Oliver studied towards his rabbinic ordination in Israel and the United States and grew up through Noam our Masorti youth movement. 


SESSION 2
3:45- 4:45PM


OPTION 1: A year of reflection, a year of strength with Naomi Magnus

There is no such thing as a perfect year, each year gone past has lessons learnt, opportunities missed, great strength and achievement. How do we find the language to name and share some of our highs and our lows. Is there strength to be found in sharing as a group and finding more honesty as a community as we begin this New Year afresh?

Naomi Magnus is a founding member of the Havurah and an experienced psychotherapist. She has worked in a variety of settings including the NHS and a women's domestic abuse counselling service. Naomi has worked with non-profit community and human rights organisations. She has run her own private psychotherapy practice in London for the last 8 years.


OPTION 2: Birthday and Shofar – celebrating and listening to the call of the year ahead and the year gone by with Rabbi Oliver Spike Joseph

The shofar and new beginnings are two key aspects of the days of Rosh Hashanah, come with me as we investigate what it means to evaluate the purpose of our lives in true relationship and harmony with the natural world. The shofar serves to awake us to reflect on the year that has been and who we really are, how do these core themes of awakening and creation sit alongside one another?

Rabbi Oliver Spike Joseph is the founding rabbi of the Havurah and currently also works for New North London Synagogue. Oliver studied towards his rabbinic ordination in Israel and the United States and grew up through Noam our Masorti youth movement. 


Location

Henrietta Barnet School
Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, NW11 7BN United Kingdom

When

  • Saturday, September 19, 2020 2:00 PM
  • Timezone: United Kingdom Time
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