CHICAGO, IL — riday, November 21st is Michelle Bentsman’s 19th birthday. It will be her first birthday as a student at the University of Chicago. And she has chosen to spend it with Chabad.
“I really want to be part of this event,” says Bentsman, “and I don’t want anything—including my birthday—to get in the way.”
On Campus, A Females-Only Shabbat With Chabad
CHICAGO, IL — riday, November 21st is Michelle Bentsman’s 19th birthday. It will be her first birthday as a student at the University of Chicago. And she has chosen to spend it with Chabad.
“I really want to be part of this event,” says Bentsman, “and I don’t want anything—including my birthday—to get in the way.”
“This event” is the fourth annual women’s-only Shabbat at the Chabad Jewish Center on campus. It coincides with the yearly conference of shluchim in which thousands of rabbis convene in New York for a weekend of seminars and networking. Without their husbands in town, Baila Brackman and many other campus rebbetzins are hosting Friday night dinner for girls only.
The evening’s schedule will include group prayers, singing, home-cooked food, and the much-anticipated highlight: a frank discussion about Jewish views on love and intimacy.
The Chicago Maroons will read a selection of works by noted Jewish experts regarding relationships and love. Brackman will also introduce them to the concept of mikvah through a discussion of its import and associated laws. As the Shabbat candles flicker and wane, the organized program will give way to passionate discussions sure to last throughout the night.
For Bentsman, and many other girls on campuses around the country, this Shabbat will be their first at Chabad. Many girls are planning to come simply because their guy friends won’t be there. “Women are by nature more intimate,” believes Bentsman, “without men around we will be able to express our intimacy without strain or distraction.”
An admirer
Great job Baila!
Moshe
Women are by nature more intimate,” believes Bentsman, “without men around we will be able to express our intimacy without strain or distraction.
Mabey the men should stay away. Because the guys feel the same way! how come whenever the woman do a good thing they feel they have to knock the males. i dont see men saying the same things by FARBRENGENS about woman. Its always about how the woman are supressed by the Shallow Men, Oh well.
Keep up the good work anyways!
PS Im proposing a males only Shabbos, now that would be great