Last Shabbat (not the one that just ended, but the one before that) I went to Moshav Modi'in for a Shabbaton with Devora and Dev. It was sponsored by an older couple that hosts mostly students every other Shabbat or so. We all brought assorted food items (I brought grapes, pomegrantes, and bananas.) An interesting thing to note: the couple was shomer shabbat and kept kosher, so we only ate on plastic plates the entire weekend, as they couldn't do dishes during Shabbat, and dishes to feed 30 of us three meat meals is a lot of dishes. That meant that there was a lot of waste, but they also couldn't have hosted without the plastic dishes.
The Moshav is famous for it's Carlebach-style services (basically lots of singing), but I only went to the Kabbalat Shabbat and part of the Shacharit services on Saturday. Oh, and Havdalah. The shul had a mechitzah, and it was the type where the men were in the front and the women in the back (in this case the men were actually in the shul and the women were in a tent behind it.) I didn't find that too be very comfortable for me personally, and it definitely contributed to me skipping most of the other services (that and I wasn't really expected to go to all of them.)
The best part of the Moshav was that it was gorgeous! The scenery completely made up for all the other awkward moments throughout our time there. And I got to interact with lots of people who I don't normally interact with (ie yeshiva students living on the other side of the Green Line with politics to match.) Devora, Dev, and myself spent the night outside, which was absolutely amazing, and we stayed up late talking. We also played lots of Rummikub and Bananagrams on Saturday afternoon, and read, and slept. It was a very relaxing Shabbat and I definitely got to experience something different.
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