LEVEL UP! Advanced Emunah Solidarity Retreat

Give and Grow- Unite with the Jewish People, Connect to God, to Israel and to Your Soul. 

Tentative Itinerary - subject to change based on security issues, availability of speakers, hotels and events.

Monday, Feb. 10th, 2025

Arrive in Israel

Bus pick up from Ben Gurion airport at 12:00 noon

Meet at the Inbal hotel at 1:00pm

Travel up north

3:00 pm Check in to Carmel Forest Spa

3-4pm  Time to settle in

Optional treatments at the spa (schedule in advance, pay with your own cc)

5:00pm  Look Younger Power Hour!   Yardena Slater 

6:00 Getting to Know You - meet Israeli counterparts and hear about grieving, healing and connecting since Oct. 7th

Introducing the Give and Grow Concept- Volunteering and Contributing to the Nation in Israel

7:00 Dinner

8:00 Regulate your Parasympathetic system during times of Stress   Dr. Hanna Shohat

9:00 Laughter Games and Song with Debbie Hirsch

Goodnight!

Overnight Carmel Forest Spa

Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025

8:00 Hike and Yoga           Adele Rivka Adina   

9:00 Breakfast

Optional: Spa Treatments- booked in advance, pay by cc

9:30 Goal Setting, Action Taking and Creating your own reality     Yardena Slater

10:30 Head to Zichron Yaakov: 

  Emunah-festations  Dini Coopersmith on the bus

11:00 Food and Wine Tour with Shani Amichai "Teima mehatzafon" - a Taste of the North

Tour of Zichron Yaakov

2:00  Head back to Carmel Forest Spa

3:00    Optional Treatments at the Spa (book in advance, pay with your own cc)  

Class with Dr. Meira Reiss on "The Power of Mind over Matter"

4:00  Don't Know me, Don't Judge me   Debby Garfunkel

5:00  Stretching and Pelvic Floor Yoga     Shira Tjong Alvares

6:00  Dinner

7:00 Healing and Dance with Adele Rivka Adina   

Overnight: Carmel Forest Spa

Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 

8:00  Hike in the Carmel Forest with  Shira Tjong Alvares 

9:00 Breakfast 

10:00  Yoga at the Pool    Shira Tjong Alvares

11:00  Check out and pack the bus

11:30 Head to Harish

12:00 Meet with Hadas Lowenstern, widow of Elisha Lowenstern, Hy"d, who was killed in action in Gaza in Dec., 2023

Hear about Emunah, courage and resilience.

1:00 Light Lunch and pack up gift bags for the wounded soldiers

2:00 Depart to Tel Aviv

Visit Sheba Hospital in Tel Aviv and bring gifts and cards to wounded soldiers in Rehabilitation

4:00  Depart to Jerusalem

5:30 Check in to Inbal Jerusalem hotel

Free evening

Option to have dinner at the "Soup Festival" at the Inbal

Optional: Prayer at the Kotel 

Overnight: Inbal Jerusalem

Thursday, Feb. 13th, 2025

Tu b'shvat! A day of Revival, Renewal and Growth

8:00 Breakfast

9:00 Travel down south to the Nova festival site and pass by the "Car cemetery" and Shuva Rest stop

Tu B'shvat seder, Poetry and Meditation led by Chaya Lester on the Bus

Prayer Circle - pay tribute to the fallen and bear witness to this modern-day pogrom

Leave to Kibbutz Ruchama where the residents of Kfar Azza relocated after the Oct. 7th massacre

11:45 Meet with Gon Sosna, a resident of Kfar Azza , hear stories of revival and hope, volunteer in rebuilding, as well as participate in the Tu b'shvat children activities on the kibbutz.

1:00 Depart to Shlomit, a yishuv in the Gaza Envelope, meet Shiran and Yedidya Harosh and hear the story of heroic fighters, who left their synogogues on Simchat Torah, 2023, and risked their lives to defend the surrounding settlements. 

Light Lunch

2:00 pm  See (and shop at) Shiran's unique display of jewelry made out of rockets

4:00 pm Head back to Jerusalem

5:30 Free evening

Overnight Inbal Jerusalem

Friday, Feb. 14th, 2025

Breakfast

9:00 Rise after the Fall- the key to resilience in Tehillim           Mrs. Rivka Segal

10:15 Getting to the Root of Solidarity       R. Nechemia Coopersmith

11:30 Optional: Leave to shuk

12:00-3 Free for lunch and Prep for Shabbat

4:00 Leave to Aish Building

4:45 Candle Lighting at Aish World Center

Pray and Dance at Kotel 

Dinner Aish World Center

Dvar Torah- R. Nechemia Coopersmith

Walk back to the Inbal hotel

Oneg Shabbat at the Inbal lobby

Overnight Inbal Jerusalem

Shabbat, February 15th, 2025

Optional: Shabbat services (a number of different locatiosn TBD)

Kiddush/ Breakfast

10:30 5 steps to Leveling Up your relationship with God         Dini Coopersmith 

11:30 Leave to Shabbat Lunch at Meira Reiss'  house

3:00 Shabbat Rest

4:00 Don't Know me, Don't Judge me - part 2          Debby Garfunkel

6:30  Havdala

8:00 Melaveh Malka at 11 Eliyahu Shama st., David's Village

Laughter Therapy     Debby Garfunkel

Dance Party with  Chaya Lev!

Overnight Inbal hotel

Sunday, February 16th, 2025

Breakfast

8:30 Achieving Equanimity in Challenging Times          Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen

9:30 The Purpose of Prayer and Manifesting Blessings     Rebetzin Yehudis Golshevsky

10:30 Depart to Gush Etzion

11:30 Meet Dahlia Gottleib of the Gush Etzion Fund (Keren Gush Etzion), and hear about Life in Judea and Samaria

12:30 Leave to Army base: meet women combat soldiers, bring gifts-bags of jewelry, cosmetics and snacks, and hear their messages of hope and courage 

3:00 Meet at Jolie Eisen's house for some wine and cheese, discussion and hear about her experiences since her aliya and since Oct. 7th.

4:00 Emunah, and the Power of Hope and Change  Rabbi Leo Dee

5:00 Meet Orit Weinberg at Pinah Chama and learn about what she has been doing for soldiers

Prepare bbq for the soldiers (men and women:) with Orit

6:00 BBQ Dinner with soldiers! 

8:00 pm Back to Jerusalem

Overnight: Inbal Jerusalem

Monday, February 17th, 2024

9:00 Taking it all Home         Dini Coopersmith

10:00 Check out of Hotel

Load Bus or put Luggage in Storage

11:00 Tour Ancient Shiloh, meet Eliana Passentin, and hear about her contribution to the State of Israel since Oct. 7th

12:30  Visit Aaron Katsoff at the Settler's Cellar in Aish Kodesh for Wine Tasting and grab a light lunch

2:30 Meet Amichai Ressler, father of Dvir Chaim Ressler, hy"d, hear his amazing perspective on life, and about his initiative "Simcha Extreme".

3:30 Depart back to Jerusalem

Shop for last-minute presents to take home, and Support Israeli businesses

5:45 Meet in Mamilla for Banquet Dinner at Kedma in Music Square, Jerusalem

Evaluation forms and Sharing Insights and feedback

7:45 Leave to Airport!

See you back here soon in happier times!