How was your Shabbat experience this week?
My current shul had 2-3x the typical turn-out and apparently my brother’s shul couldn’t fit everyone in the room!? (The synagogue he goes to is freaking huge??!!)
Okay, so update. For some context his synagogue is Reform and also in the South. Apparently his synagogue had more people than on the high holidays (sounds like about 2x the number of a weekday high holiday?) and all sorts of other faith communities were there ❤ (Muslims, Sikhs, Christians,…). And so they had to set up a live-stream ( 😯 !) of the sanctuary to other rooms in the synagogue so everyone could see!!!
The campus Hillel was at capacity in their usual space, probably two to three times the usual turnout. There were visitors from the campus community (an Arabic TA and a couple of Muslim students, professors, a librarian), and from the surrounding town, like me.
my shul (which also has a LARGE building) was completely at capacity and had literally hundreds of people waiting outside (IN THE RAIN) who could not fit into the building even after we squeezed lots of standing room people in. rather than turn anyone away, the food that had been prepared for after prayer was served to the people who were waiting, and an unplanned second service happened immediately after the first so that everyone who didn’t fit could still come for prayer.
We had 75 people at ours when we usually get around 20-30. Lots of allies showed up.
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