This past Friday evening, a large crowd attended a beautiful Shabbaton that was held at the Freeman residence which included a delicious Shabbat dinner, melodies and song and inspiring words by Rabbi Yehudah & Miriam Ferris. The Ferris's spoke on the theme of Jewish Happiness and Meaning, and on homed in on the bottom line of Judaism "taking action".
Through a wealth of stories, Jewish anecdotes, personal experiences, the Ferris's kept the audience enraptured with the theme of the evening. Stories included the story of the person from Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley who won the best costume on Purim who wasn't even dressed up, or the story of the homeless person they helped who went on and helped another homeless person who recently got married, lives in Israel and had their first child, and many other of their amazing stories. The central theme of their talks and stories, was that our job, mandate and responsibility is to do and take action, and not always to decide or be despondent about the real or potential results. As Rabbi Ferris aptly quoted Rabbi Schnersohn's response once regarding measuring success "all it took was one Jewish mother and Moses came to be"!
The beautiful evening's events continued the next day with Shabbat Services and a Kiddush at Chabad of Sudbury.
Thank you everyone for attending and thank you Rabbi Yehudah & Miriam Ferris for the wonderful weekend!