We hope your post-Passover power nap is particularly pleasant.

The Jewish season heads into a quieter zone with lesser-known Jewish holidays over the next months. While they might be lesser-known, they are some of the more interesting ones, for example, Lag Baomer, the Kabbalistic highlight of the year, and Shavuot, the day the Torah was given, marked with all-night study and heavy cheesecake and dairy meals.

There will be events to mark these occasions but we would like to remind you that regular Judaism is fun too. Join us for a class, Shabbat services, a Shabbat meal, or a coffee connection.

Wishing you a Shabbat Shalom, have an uplifting week! Looking forward to celebrating together!

Rabbi Mendy & Mussy

p.s. As always, we would love to chat with you over coffee or drinks, about Judaism, or just life - simply reply to this email.

  Upcoming: 

Shabbat: Shabbat morning services 10:30 am

Torah discussion and reading 11:00 am

Followed by Kiddush and Cholent

5/03: New Moon Circle

5/06: First Friday Shabbat Dinner

Celebrate Shabbat with all your new and old friends, the best way to reset from the week and a high-value tradition.

7:30 Soulful Shabbat Services

8:00 Shabbat Dinner

RSVP here or at yjpaustin.org/events

📖 Read:

 Memories of the heart - an intimate conversation about Eli Weisel as a father, with his son Elisha.

A reconsideration of Fiddler on the Roof and other romanticizations of our painful Shtetl past. "Nostalgia for the Slaughterhouse."

 “Bashir and Yusuf are big fans of cholent and gefilte fish,” Chaya said. “They have really become part of our community, and part of our family."

Targeted by Taliban, Afghan refugee family finds home at Chabad of Fremont.

BEYOND RIGHT: THE VALUES THAT SHAPE JUDAISM'S CIVIL CODE

Talmudic analysis and mind-bending logic have long been a hallmark of Jewish scholarship. But buried beneath much of the discussion and legalese are core Jewish values that fuel so much of the debate. This course examines a number of key legal issues that disclose fundamental ethical considerations that serve as the engine of Jewish civil law.

Wednesday evenings 7:30-9:00 pm

Chabad Center 3500 Hyridge Dr.

Free for YJP

For more information and to register:

https://www.yjpaustin.org/civicrm/event/info?id=125&reset=1

Lawyers and attornies: this course will give you CLEs and Ethics credits.

 HIGHLIGHT:

Mazel tov to Josh Newman and Etti Leiberman on your engagement! May you build a bayit neeman b'yisrael, a Jewish home on the foundations of Torah and yiddishkeit!

{Rabbi Mendy went up to NY to join in the big celebrations!}

 Watch:

🌱 Grow:

 YJP is growing strongly, and these folks are right in the middle of it. 

The Chai Society members are the driving force behind this awesome community, and we are beyond thankful ❤️

Want to grow YJP? Join the Chai Society.

Your $36, $54, $100, or $180 monthly gift will turn into programs, activities, and High Energy Judaism.

CLICK HERE (or reply to this email) to join this group of monthly donors and invest in local young Jewish life.

Special thanks to our Chai Society members:

Yankee Andrusierׁ • Daniel Speiss • Nate Firebaugh • Sara Guccione • Paulina Flasch • Chaim & Amanda Pollak • Ari & Sandra Hoffman • Michael Nadel • Marc Cooper • Matt Ford • Carolina Bueno

Together, we’re unstoppable. High Energy!

  Jewish word of the week: nu (n, v, adj)

The ultimate Jewish word, really more like a sound. More meanings than oy.

Nu, I really need to explain this one to you?

Nu..... (the nudge)

Nu! (you won't get it anyways)

Nu, Nu (whatever, it is what it is)

Shabbat Acharei

Light your candles at 7:50 pm

in Austin, TX

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