Anyone else having a hard time getting psyched up for Pesach? Big shifts in my (former) shul, loss of long standing Rabbi, 180⁰ shift in board leadership, not good. Things change, but they threw away my last 6 years with 2 hands and a smile. Then there's of course the war. There will be no local siyyum for 1st born this year, so zoom again. It's just been hard. #Pesach
Yeah, we're in the same situation. The sorority girls took over the shul a couple of years ago, and I have zero interest in going. We're doing first night with some friends at their place, and I'm having a few friends over second night.
@shekinahcancook I was a layleader, our Rabbi Dyan was ordained Mefista Adath, Renewand then made Dyan. One of 4 in the US. We led the shul thru COVID. I did some yeshiva training. Learning zoom, singing to cameras, 2 years, every holiday. There was a contingent that despised things being too Jewish for them. They'd get mad at say, keeping a kosher kitchen in the shul. Not allowing baking on a holiday. Hebrew is offensive even, as many didn't understand it at all. Some intermarried spouses in particular wanted church minus Jesus. Anything that made it a shul and not a JCC. They hired a guy with a very questionable smicha, and was a yes man who dismantled things. It's been crushing. I lost count of the funerals I was a part of, the years of weekends volunteered to keep it running. The constant good attendance and growth we saw. It'll be a hard seder but we'll do.
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