This past week, the theme on Boneh has been the introduction to the Tanach. On Sunday, the workshoppers had Hebrew class in the morning and then in the afternoon looked at stories of Creation and Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, after a general Biblical Overview. The 1st two chapters of Genesis were looked at from a feminist perspective and the story of the Garden of Eden was looked at from a somewhat obscure 17th century Socialist perspective of Diggers and Levellers which provided a very interesting discussion for all.
On Sunday night, on their own initiative, a number of workshoppers travelled to Beit Shemesh in order to donate blood at the Magen David Adom station. As you may or may not know, there is currently a blood shortage at the blood banks across Israel.
On Monday, the workshoppers had Hadracha class in the morning where different leadership theories and methods were discussed in a conventional Leadership vs Management dynamic, together with a more relevant Habonim Dror hadracha context. This was followed by Yom Kvutsa, together with each kvutsa's respective madrichim.
Most of today was in seminar sessions. In the morning, there was a session on Noah, and a session looking at the Tower of Babel. After recapping the story of Noah and the great flood, we related to the issues of breakdowns in society and the corruption which exists in our lives. The Tower of Babel story, a rather bizarre addition in the middle of the chapter, looks at communication and language and the scattering of peoples across the globe - we used this to talk about common language in our kvutsa, movement and lives. In the afternoon we summarized the week and looked at Joseph and Dreams, using our own dreams as a trigger to see how well we can intepret them! In the late afternoon, the chavura planning groups split up to begin planning their activties. Chavura is an opportunity for the workshoppers to plan in mixed groups, evening programming on topics such as The Story of Job, the Russian Revolution, The King David Hotel Bombing and Chanuka.
Tomorrow all the workshoppers will be back at Kibbutz Kvutsat Shiller to pick fruit with TableToTable, followed by Hebrew classes in the afternoon.