Shabbat Message
Shabbat at Camp Chi
By Tess Adelstein, CTC Secretary Every week at Camp Chi, without fail, is spent counting down the days and hours until we all get to come together and celebrate Shabbat as one big Camp Chi community. This routine has stayed the same for generations of Camp Chi summers, no matter how different the Shabbat or […] Learn More ›
What Makes Shabbat at Camp Chi Special?
Shabbat is many people’s favorite times of the week. During the fall, winter, and spring, Shabbat means a day of rest- no school and no work for most. It offers a time to be with those you love and to reconnect spiritually while recharging your batteries. What’s the best part of Shabbat? That is different […] Learn More ›
Shabbat Shalom & Welcome Home
Each session begins with a program called Homecoming. This opening night festivity is a celebration of camp beginning and a chance to welcome everyone home. Perhaps we should rename tonight’s Shabbat to homecoming. Why? Well tonight we not only will have a wonderful Shabbat hosted by the SITs of 2019, but tonight we welcome over […] Learn More ›
A Little Chesed Goes a Long Way
Earlier this week we joined in with camps all over the country to celebrate Camp Kindness Day. We are no strangers to kindness, or chesed, as it is one of our core values. When the opportunity to devote a day of programming to it came about, we jumped right in. And now as we enter […] Learn More ›
It Takes 10 to Make 1: The Power of Kehillah
At camp we all live in one big kehillah or community. We eat our meals together and do our activities together, all in shared communal living spaces. It takes a lot to make the big cohesive kehillah. In fact it takes many kehillot. Camp Chi is made up of 10 villages- Garinim, Yeladim, Kadima, Shoreshim, Tsofim, Chalutzim, […] Learn More ›
Demonstrating Ometz Lev at Camp
Last week in our Shabbat post, we spoke about chesed, and the kindness we see throughout camp. There are three core values of Camp Chi- kavod (respect), chesed (kindness) and kehillah (community.) But what does it take to be a part of our kehillah? That, our friends, would be a lot of courage, or ometz lev. Ometz lev translates literally […] Learn More ›