Congregation Eitz Chayim celebrates the LGBTQ community December 9, 2011.   Join us for a joyful lay-lead participatory Kabbalat Shabbat service at 7pm, which will include readings from GLBTQ liturgy and writers.   After the oneg at 8pm we will have a fabulous potluck tisch.*   Bring food (veggie/dairy), a bottle of wine, a story, a song, a dvar, or a poem to share, or helping hands to arrange the tables.   As we head into winter, help us create a really warm spot in Cambridge!

Our special guests for the evening include members of GLBT shul Congregation Am Tikva in Brookline http://www.amtikva.org/.  Our tisch will be led by guest facilitator Yaakov Reef http://yreef.com/ from TBS.

We will do a short text study during the service, pondering what it was like for Dina to go out into the land, into an unfamiliar and hostile territory.   There will be ample time at the tisch to dig deeper into Dina’s story or any part of Parashat Vayishlach (Genesis 32:4 - 36:43), and to hear the stories you bring to the table.

RSVPs are greatly appreciated, in order for us to plan the food, but are not required.  If you can bring food, savory rather than dessert would be best.   Contact Penina Weinberg at president@eitz.org to RSVP or for more information.

Eitz Chayim is an egalitarian, inclusive, non-denominational synagogue whose members are of all ages and family configurations, and who come from a wide range of religious, ethnic, class, family, and cultural backgrounds.  We welcome YOU to celebrate Shabbat with us.

A parking consideration is in effect on Friday nights.  Park within a couple blocks of Eitz Chayim and put a note on your dashboard that you are attending services.

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."      --Tennessee Williams, Camino Real 

*A tisch is literally a table – but in the Hasidic world it’s much more than that!   Come prepared to eat, sing, bang on the table, tell stories, teach, and learn a little, maybe drink!