Integrative Shabbat Experience
Episode description
One Table
Featuring Aliza Kline, Executive Director
“OneTable is designed as integrative as opposed to immersive. It is integrating Jewish life, practice, culture tradition in to your kitchen, in to your living room. and that sense of this is not something I leave my home for, this is in my home and that it’s my decision of what to serve and who to invite it is yours,” explains Aliza Kline, founding Executive Director of OneTable. “We have rituals to remind us to do things we might not do otherwise…What makes Shabbat, Shabbat is our paying attention to the fact that its Friday, it’s your awareness,” she says.
Shabbat becomes our reminder to take time out, slowdown. Conversations about self care are happening frequently. There are more references to self care in pop culture than ever before. OneTable’s website explains, “Shabbat is an ancient self care ritual… it’s an act of rebellion against a constantly moving world." We bring ritual to the table not because we have to, but because disconnecting in order to intentionally connect, separate from the work week, and build community is holy – and really good for you.”
OneTable empowers people who don’t yet have a consistent Shabbat dinner practice. OneTable's mission is to make Shabbat dinner accessible to tens of thousands of people who otherwise would be absent from Jewish community. OneTable provides hosts and guests with easily accessible tools and resources, making these rituals not only attainable, but sustainable.
Since its inception, OneTable has provided the support for approximately 160,000 people to host 45,000 Shabbat dinners. Since the onset of Covid, they’ve hosted 15,000 Shabbat dinners- 30% were virtual and 10% were solo-Shabbats. Prior to the pandemic, OneTable hosted on average between 200-250 dinners per week. Now they are hosting about 500-600 per week on the OneTable platform.
This episode is dedicated to the memory of mutual beloved mentor, Rabbi Mark Shapiro, of blessed memory.
Ways to contact or connect with OneTable:
- Visit here to learn more about OneTable.
- Become a host.
- Join One Table Live next Shabbat.
- Follow One Table on Facebook , Instagram and Pinterest.
Collaborations and Initiatives mentioned:
Seder 2020 Help you organize a meaningful and create Passover experience this year by putting all the pieces in one place: logistics, video conferencing, a Haggadah that guests can download and print at home, and more.
Great Big Jewish Food Festival - a virtual festival held in May, 2020 for over 10 days included a variety of events–workshops & conversations, happy hours, and Shabbat dinners, and so much more.
Herefor.com (https://herefor.com/) is a space to go when you are
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