Registration for Passover Village 2019 is now OPEN!
This page has information for registration but not everything else. Please also visit: http://passovervillage.blogspot.com for other Passover Village info.
LOCATION
This year we will be returning to iconic and enigmatic Joshua Tree National Park. We will gather in community, embraced by a magnificent amphitheater of boulders rising 100 feet above our two group camp sites. Exact location and directions will be provided with registration confirmation. Please don't plan to "just drop by."
DATES
9 AM Friday April 26, 2019 through Noon Sunday April 28, 2019
Come Early: Allow 2 to 3 hours minimum travel time by car from Los Angeles; arrival before dark will simplify campsite setup. Camp is available to us as early as 3:00 pm Wednesday, April 24th. Otherwise, plan to arrive by 8:00 am Friday at the latest to set-up your personal camp and join the opening circle at 9:00 am.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Send the following by email (required):
1. Requested contribution is $90/adult or child 13-and-over; children 12-and-under free!
2. The name, phone number, and email address of each adult being registered.
3. The name and ages of any children aged 17-and-under, and the name of the adult registrant who will be responsible for each child.
4. The number and description of vehicles.
5. The day, date and time you plan to arrive.
6. Contribution to Scholarship Fund (optional)
* We ask that payment be made via PayPal https://www.paypal.com/us/home
There is no charge for a PayPal account. You can use your bank account for free or a credit card for only a $.33 fee (less than a stamp!) and send your contribution to the PayPal account passovervillage@gmail.com.
If you must, send a check payable to:
Larry Richard (m: 310-560-6004)
2118 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 594
Santa Monica, CA 90403
* Payment must be received by April 1, 2019 to confirm your space.
* Includes all camping fees and delicious, catered Seder meal. TBD
* Genuine financial hardship should not keep you from attending. Please let us know how you can contribute.
* Volunteers Needed: (1) help loading gear in Culver City on TBD, (2) transporting to and from camp, (3) unloading gear on Sunday afternoon, April 28th
PASSOVER VILLAGE AGREEMENTS:
We agree to respect and care for ourselves, each other, the community and the land. To safeguard the freedom and sanctity of time and space in the Passover Village, the Leadership Council has endeavored to balance the needs of individuals with those of the community. To that end, the following updates are effective with Passover Village 2013.
By registering for this retreat, attendees also agree to the following:
Photography and Recordings:
-- When we are gathered In Community with a common focus, or "In Session," put away cameras and recording devices.
-- When we are not gathered as a focused community, having lunch, talking with others, etc., photos and recording are allowed within bounds of respect, privacy and permission: Be discrete, non-intrusive, and respectful of all participants when taking any photographs or recording; some may prefer not to be photographed or recorded at all.
-- Do not publish photos or recordings in public media
-- If unsure about a photo or recording, do not take or publish it.
Personal Displays and Self Promotion: In the spirit of a retreat, so that we might leave behind the things of the day to day world, please do not bring personal displays or promotional items into community areas.
CARPOOLING: This is strongly encouraged and a great way to start the Village before you arrive. Parking onsite is very limited. Let us know if you need or can offer a ride.
SHARING THE BURDEN, LIGHTENING THE LOAD
If you find you will be traveling alone, please consider offering to partner with another Passover Villager to share driving, camp set-up and meals. If you are strong, please share. If you are not so strong, please ask for help.
ACCESSIBILITY: The campground is accessible via road. The outhouses meet ADA requirements for accessibility, but most of the campsite is sandy or loose soil, making wheelchair mobility difficult. But as during our exodus from Egypt, when the infirm and disabled were carried, we will accommodate special needs.
PARKING
Parking is limited in the group site parking lot.
Overflow parking is available a short drive away and shuttle rides back to camp can be arranged as needed.
RV parking is restricted by size (25’ max) as well as total number of all vehicles.
CAMPSITE DETAILS
* We do not have running water however community water supply and personal water containers can be filled for free at the ranger station about one mile away
* Multiple picnic tables and a community barbecue pit
* Two pit toilets in weather-protected brick building
* There are sites for individual tents scattered throughout the group site.
* This is a family-friendly site, however it is in the National Park and precautions are advised against the elements. Beware of snakes, cacti, falls, and around prickly shrubs.
* This site is a 2-3 hour drive from the Los Angeles area. Motels or B&B accommodations can be found in nearby Twentynine Palms if you cannot camp.
* Exact location and directions will be provided after registration. Please don't plan to "just drop by."
* Visit https://www.nps.gov/jotr/index.htm for complete National Park Service details
MEALS
Friday Night Dinner: An outreach to Villagers who might like to coordinate a potluck Shabbat meal and/or service will be forthcoming.
Saturday Night Dinner: TBD
Other Meals and Snacks: Bring food and kitchen/cooking items for your own enjoyment. (Meal-time sharing is encouraged.)
LEADERSHIP:
Throughout the year, a Leadership Council -- with help and input from other community members -- keeps alive the spirit of Passover Village and plans and organizes our gatherings. Members of the Leadership Council have taken on facilitation of various aspects of Passover Village (with some others' tasks to be decided):
Marc Weigensberg
Tobi Fishel
Dan Brumer
Laurie Burton
Michael Chusid
Sandra Goodman
Larry Richard
Avram Wagman
Chaim Pittle
VOLUNTEERING: It takes a village to make a village. Will you help organize or lead…?:
Baking matzah
Making haroset
Assembling the Seder plate
Bringing music, song, and ruach (spirit)
Preparing a teaching, creative activity, or ritual
Planning a meditation walk
Mentoring our "young warriors" or engaging with Village Kids
Bringing the fruit of the vine
Repairing tent
or whatever your calling.
The Passover Village will offer a chance to immerse and spend time in these ancient forms as we recreate aspects of the Exodus, celebrate community and share in the traditional "non-traditional, expanded, experimental, enhanced and engaging Passover Village Seder!"
We invite you to revisit the excellent study notes posted throughout the year to begin your Passover Village experience right away! You will find them elsewhere in the blog pages.
MORE INFO AND TO VOLUNTEER
PassoverVillage@gmail.com
Michael (818) 219-4937
Larry (310) 560-6004
Dan 310-396-0706
NOTICE: Outdoors activities and camping are inherently dangerous. By participating you agree to accept all risks to yourself and property, and to hold harmless the organizers of and participants in Passover Village.
Revised 2019-02-24 by Michael C.
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2011-02-13
2011 Kavanah: Our Spiritual Intention
Shalom Haverim,
It’s that time again . . . time to start thinking about our upcoming 16th annual Passover Village retreat. This year we will again be returning to Joshua Tree, where the rocky amphitheater of the land is calling us to another year of earth-based ritual, prayer, camping, and being together.
Once again, we remember that Pesach is a time to renew our connections with our ancestors as we explore our ancient roots in ritual fashion. We are instructed to tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt as if we ourselves had gone out from that “narrow place” over 3000 years ago. It is a time to reflect on the meaning of slavery and freedom, oppression and transcendence, repression and growth. We celebrate what it means to be a people dedicated to service of Hashem/Elohim, and renew our connection with the story and the people with whom it all began.
In addition to these general themes of Passover, our particular group seeks to explore the connection to our people’s past as an indigenous people. That is to say, what does it mean to be a Hebrew - an Ivri, a boundary crosser - one of the Children of Israel, an indigenous tribal people who lived day to day connected intimately to the land and to nature? This was our initial motivation way back in 1995 for holding seder on the land, in the desert, much as our ancestors must have experienced it.
Each year we establish our “ Passover Village” for the weekend, where we enjoy each other’s presence and spirits in a cooperative, and heart-felt endeavor. Our vision is to create a place in which we all dwell together as Brothers and Sisters, in which each Soul is fully seen, recognized, and acknowledged, creating a lattice of contribution, in which each person serves a different role, a vital role in the community aligned as much as possible to his/her core self.
Every year we also add a bit of additional community Kavannah (spiritual intention) to our Seder weekend, to help us explore more deeply our tribal history together. Last year, again setting up our seder ritual space in accordance with the dimensions of the ancient Tabernacle, surrounded by the flags and banners of the 12 Tribes, we experienced deep and very personal teachings about the character and nature of our ancestress Ruth, as well as the nature of the Feminine in our tradition. We each took home from our seder weekend our own very particular lessons and understandings of the story of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz, and were blessed with what we received from the Hebrew Feminine.
For this year’s kavannah, we want to further explore the archetypal nature of our ancestors, to see what lessons we can derive from their lives that will inform our own lives. Building from our experience of Ruth and the Feminine aspects of our tradition, and having studied many of the Masculine archetypes in past years, we decided that this year we would take the next step and explore the nature of the relationship between Masculine and Feminine as embodied by our first couple, Avram/Avraham and Sarai/Sarah.
With these 2 ancestors as our guides, together we will seek to gain some insight into what our tradition teaches us about being in relationship, the nature of Masculine and Feminine, Father – Mother, HaKadosh Baruch Hu – Shechinah, union, intimacy, generosity, laughter, hospitality, infertility, polyamory, ancient wisdoms, relations with neighbors, the division of the Ishmaelites from the Yitzhakites, offerings of healing at personal, relational, communal, and inter-tribal levels. These are just some of the possible teachings that might flow from a study of the first Hebrew couple.
Maybe learning the lessons within the story of our first archetypal ancestral couple could even open up a path to world peace. Im tirtzu . . . (if you want it . . . )
We look forward to what we will discover together at Joshua Tree under the sun and moon of Nissan, through our prayers, discussions, rituals, and general interactions together.
We are indeed a fortunate People to have so much of our ancient history written and available to us in our sacred texts. As we gather this year among the stones of Joshua Tree, and among the memories that we have built over the preceding 13 years, we will celebrate the freedom that we hold so dear, and again learn from one another what it means to be a people connected to the earth, to our ancestors, to Spirit, and to the best within each of us and each of our fellow human beings.
If you want to read about Abraham and Sarah, you can find it in Genesis. Some members of the Village have been studying this text during the past year, and notes from our discussions are posted on this Blog.
Shalom U’L’hitraot – see you in Joshua Tree!
Marc
It’s that time again . . . time to start thinking about our upcoming 16th annual Passover Village retreat. This year we will again be returning to Joshua Tree, where the rocky amphitheater of the land is calling us to another year of earth-based ritual, prayer, camping, and being together.
In addition to these general themes of Passover, our particular group seeks to explore the connection to our people’s past as an indigenous people. That is to say, what does it mean to be a Hebrew - an Ivri, a boundary crosser - one of the Children of Israel, an indigenous tribal people who lived day to day connected intimately to the land and to nature? This was our initial motivation way back in 1995 for holding seder on the land, in the desert, much as our ancestors must have experienced it.
Each year we establish our “ Passover Village” for the weekend, where we enjoy each other’s presence and spirits in a cooperative, and heart-felt endeavor. Our vision is to create a place in which we all dwell together as Brothers and Sisters, in which each Soul is fully seen, recognized, and acknowledged, creating a lattice of contribution, in which each person serves a different role, a vital role in the community aligned as much as possible to his/her core self.
Every year we also add a bit of additional community Kavannah (spiritual intention) to our Seder weekend, to help us explore more deeply our tribal history together. Last year, again setting up our seder ritual space in accordance with the dimensions of the ancient Tabernacle, surrounded by the flags and banners of the 12 Tribes, we experienced deep and very personal teachings about the character and nature of our ancestress Ruth, as well as the nature of the Feminine in our tradition. We each took home from our seder weekend our own very particular lessons and understandings of the story of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz, and were blessed with what we received from the Hebrew Feminine.
For this year’s kavannah, we want to further explore the archetypal nature of our ancestors, to see what lessons we can derive from their lives that will inform our own lives. Building from our experience of Ruth and the Feminine aspects of our tradition, and having studied many of the Masculine archetypes in past years, we decided that this year we would take the next step and explore the nature of the relationship between Masculine and Feminine as embodied by our first couple, Avram/Avraham and Sarai/Sarah.
With these 2 ancestors as our guides, together we will seek to gain some insight into what our tradition teaches us about being in relationship, the nature of Masculine and Feminine, Father – Mother, HaKadosh Baruch Hu – Shechinah, union, intimacy, generosity, laughter, hospitality, infertility, polyamory, ancient wisdoms, relations with neighbors, the division of the Ishmaelites from the Yitzhakites, offerings of healing at personal, relational, communal, and inter-tribal levels. These are just some of the possible teachings that might flow from a study of the first Hebrew couple.
Maybe learning the lessons within the story of our first archetypal ancestral couple could even open up a path to world peace. Im tirtzu . . . (if you want it . . . )
We look forward to what we will discover together at Joshua Tree under the sun and moon of Nissan, through our prayers, discussions, rituals, and general interactions together.
We are indeed a fortunate People to have so much of our ancient history written and available to us in our sacred texts. As we gather this year among the stones of Joshua Tree, and among the memories that we have built over the preceding 13 years, we will celebrate the freedom that we hold so dear, and again learn from one another what it means to be a people connected to the earth, to our ancestors, to Spirit, and to the best within each of us and each of our fellow human beings.
If you want to read about Abraham and Sarah, you can find it in Genesis. Some members of the Village have been studying this text during the past year, and notes from our discussions are posted on this Blog.
Shalom U’L’hitraot – see you in Joshua Tree!
Marc
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