Eitz Or Annual Meeting

Sunday, April 29 from 2:30 – 4:00 at the UUC.

Come to our Annual Meeting this Sunday where important decisions will be made about our future and how we engage with it. Please make it a priority to attend. The agenda includes appreciation, information, elections, celebration and discussion of the many opportunities for involvement and deepening ahead of us. (We are going to be as ‘Green’ as possible and reduce the number of handouts we make.)

We are excited by new energies and possibilities and need everybody’s help to make our dreams a reality.

Looking Ahead to May and June

Jewish Book Group Event – The Receiving by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
Sunday May 6, 2012 – 2:00 to 3:30 PM.
Aljoya Thornton Place - 450 NE 100th Street, Seattle, WA 98125

The Book Group will be open to Aljoya residents as well as Eitz Or members and friends. There will be no fee for participants. Aljoya will provide complimentary iced tea and cookies.

For more information and to register for this event please contact Terry Walsh, Adult Education Coordinator, at www.terryhw@earthlink.net with your name, phone and email address.

Jewish Meditation Classes

We are holding several Jewish Meditation Events using the teachings, the Shiviti meditation and guided visualizations from Rabbah D'vorah Kolodny and other spiritual sources.

Free to all members. Donation requested $7 to $10 for non-members. Please RSVP Terry Walsh, at www.terryhw@earthlink.net to save a spot in the class.

We appreciate everyone's effort in helping to make these gatherings fragrance-free.

Sunday, May 6 - 6:30 to 7:30 PM
Home of Laura Strauss and Jim Matthieu
6556 37th Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98115-7432

Sunday, June 3 – 4:00 to 5:00 PM
(followed by brief socializing)
Home of Virginia Stout
2822 10th Ave East
Seattle, WA 98102

Movie Night

Saturday, May 12 – 7:30 PM
Lynn Chapman’s home
13302 15th Ave NE - 206-368-0493

The Movie is Sarah’s Key, an emotional detective story, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, which connects present and past narratives related to when the Jews of Paris were rounded up in the 1942.

Lynn’s house is fragrance free, so please be considerate. Feel free to bring some movie munchies, she will provide tea and other drinks.

Shabbaton with Reb Arik Labowitz

Friday May, 18 - 7:30 PM and Saturday, May 19 - 10:00 AM
Knatvold Room at University Unitarian Church (UUC)
6556 35th Ave., NE

Reb Arik Labowitz engages us through song and prayer to a deep place of daavening for Shabbat.

Shabbat Morning Service
Saturday February 18 - 10:00 AM in UUC Knatvold Room

Reb Arik will lead us in prayer using chanting, song, and traditional Jewish liturgy. We will explore Parsha Behar-Behukotal.
Join us for a vegetarian potluck lunch following the service and plan to stay for this year's class.

Torah Study Led By Reb Arik Labowitz on The Song of Songs
Saturday May 19 - 1:00 – 2:30 pm in UUC Knatvold Room

Song of Songs -— Longing for the Divine Lover: Mystics of all spiritual traditions speak of God in the language of a lover. The prime example of this relationship in Judaism is demonstrated in the Song of Songs. The early rabbis debated as to whether the Song of Songs would be included in the biblical canon, given the poem’s erotic nature paired with its reputation of being sung in the local taverns. Nevertheless, Rabbi Akiva taught, "the whole Torah is holy, but the Song of Songs is the Holy of Holies."

In this class we will take a closer look at this stunning and multifaceted text. We will explore the topic of Divine Lover as it is manifest in our own tradition and other mystical traditions as well.


For information on Eitz Or, please contact us at info@eitzor.com

Congregation Eitz Or
Seattle's Jewish Renewal Community

     We welcome all flavors of Family

                                    all stages of Life

                                                   and all levels of Jewish Experience

    Sing, dance, drum, chant, meditate, move, study, and pray with us!


Congregation Eitz Or requests that all events be Fragrance Free.
Thank you for the mitzvah of your compassion.