Jan 10-11 will be our second and final Cozy-Shabbat weekend for this Winter Break. If you are up in Albany, please join us. Prayers 6:30pm, Dinner 7pm on Friday; Prayers 10am, and Lunch will be 12:30pm on Saturday. We will certainly have meals, atmosphere and informal prayers – but Minyan is still to be determined, depending on who is up here and if we’re expecting any travelers to join us (as often is the case on Cozy-Shabbat winter and summer weekends).
Update: Minyan status is now upgraded to LIKELY, thanks to Zach and Ben, two NYS legislative interns who are up here for the semester, and two of their friends who are visiting for Shabbos. If you can join us for Minyans at 6:30pm on Friday Night and 10am (or slightly thereafter) on Sat morning, you might be the tenth man!
This Shabbos is Yud-Shvat, the 10th of Shvat, which is an important date on the Chabad Chassidic calendar. In 1950 it’s the date when Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the 6th Chabad Rebbe, passed away. One year later, on his father-in-law’s first yartzeit (10th of Shvat), Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the 7th Rebbe (also known simply as The Rebbe) assumed leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch.
On Saturday Night we’re hosting a communal farbrengen with melodies, stories and inspiration starting at 7pm. We’re asking community members to each share a little tidbit or favorite segment of the “Basi L’Gani” maamar series, so we can all enjoy a Basi-L’Gani Smorgasbord, with everyone’s individual flavor, insight, warmth and personal experience. This event has no charge and is open to both students and community. We ask community members to please park their cars in the Dutch Quad Parking lot. Thanks.