We will be staying at the Ceder Creek Conference Center in New Haven, MO, a little over an hour drive from St. Louis.
The Ceder Creek Conference Center offers a variety of amenities and activities, such as a recreation room, tennis court, salt water pool, and hiking trails. For more information, visit http://cedarcreekcenter.com/play/.
There will be events scheduled from Friday evening at candlelighting to Saturday evening at sundown.
The center will only be fully rented Friday and Saturday for the retreat.
If you would like to stay Saturday evening to Sunday and spend the day at the center or in the area, please make sure to mark this request on your registration form so that we can facilitate reserving the room for you.
Shabbat Details
Candlelighting on Friday, March 17th - 6:53 pm
Shabbat ends on Saturday, March 18th - 7:51 pm
There will be an Eruv setup to encompass our living and eating areas.
Pricing
Each attendee is expected to pay a registration fee. Your place cannot be held without payment. Registration closes Friday March 3. Early Bird Registration (for Bais Abe members only) - by Tuesday January 31st
Adult Registration (ages 13+) - $65
Child Registration (ages 3-12) - $40
Infant/Toddler Registration (ages 0-3) - FREE
Regular Registration
Adult Registration (ages 13+) - $85
Child Registration (ages 3-12) - $60
Infant/Toddler Registration (ages 0-3) - FREE
Room reservations will be assigned to each family/group on a first come first serve basis.
Room Reservations
Room for Shabbat - $100
Shared Room for Shabbat - $50
An extra night in any room (Saturday Night with Sunday Checkout) - $100
Tentative Schedule
Friday, March 17, 2017 Welcome/Registration 4:00-6:00pm Check in - hand out welcome bags
5:00-6:00pm Nosh available
6:00 pm Candle lighting and dvar torah/story about transition from everyday to Shabbat (Rabbi Shafner) Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv
(6:53pm Actual candle lighting time)
7:30pm Shabbat Dinner in The Barn (assigned seats, zmirot taught and led by Rafi and Alan Nemes)
9:00pm Cafe Iyun with Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff (“Purim & Pesach: Two Lessons in Freedom or Should Mordechai Have Bowed?")
9:30pm Tisch with singing (led by Rafi and Alan Nemes) and libations
Shabbat, March 18, 2016 Coffee/light breakfast Babysitting available all day except during meals
8:30am Meditative Yoga with Tara Zafft
9:00am Meditation with Rabbi Shafner
9:30am Shacharit and Torah Reading
10:45am Breakout Services for Musaf:
Traditional led by Alan Nemes
Contemplative/Chanting led by Rabbis Scott Slarsky & Tracy Nathan
K thru 2nd grade led by Ginat Midler & two bnot sherut
3rd grade and up led by Russell Neiss & two bnot sherut
11:15am Together for End of Services - kids makhelah
11:45am Break to check out of rooms by noon (Manor House guests get late check out)
12:15-1:45pm Shabbat Lunch in The Barn
1:45-2:35 First Learning Session
1.“Every Common Bush Afire with God" Maharat Rori
2.“Greed, Need and the Bad Seed: Allison Feit New Perspectives on the Tenth Commandment”
3. “Let All Who Are Hungry Come and Eat? Jewish Identity & the Laws of Pesach" Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff
4. Kids Option: “Walk Through the Story”
(program developed by P.J. Library) Ginat Midler & Bnot Sherut
3:00-3:30pm Root Beer Float Break
3:35-4:30pm Second Learning Session
1.“Finding Ethics in an Overcrowded Lifeboat” Robert Zafft & Rabbi Shafner
2.“Two Seders: Law and Narrative” Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff
3."Nutrition for the Soul: Food and Judaism" Julia Axelbaum
4. Parent/Kids Learning
K through 2nd grade Tal & Ginat Midler & Bnot Sherut
3rd grade and up Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff & Bnot Sherut
4:45-6:00pm Games / Shesh Besh Tournament Beit Midrash - Learn Talmud with Jack & Michael Shapiro (beginners welcome) / Nature Walk led by Rabbi Scott Slarsky "Shiru laHashem!" - Learn some of the songs of Shabbat davening (to enhance our davening at Bais Abe after the retreat) - with Alan Nemes
6:00pm Mincha followed by Seudah Shlishit (with singing/stories facilitated by ____________)
7:55pm Musical Havdallah - Transition from Shabbat to Everyday