Havdalah Dinner- The Last Saturday night

After 25 weeks of facilitating our Friday night Shabbat Services in the intimate library here on the ship, I thought it would be nice to celebrate Havdalah together as a group and have a Shabbat Dinner.

Of course it came the same evening of our Rough Waters Slow Going (7/1) storm when many people did not make it out of their room for 24-48 hours. That being said, we still had a great group of 20+ friends who took on the challenge to come to dinner and try to have a Havdalah Service in the middle of a lout dining room. Oh, did I mention that we had to make do by getting cinnamon powder from breakfast for our spices, wine was easy- I had 4 left over bottles of Manischewitz but the candle required creativity in that we cannot have open flames (the electric candle would have shorted out so we had a good friend, Mui “paint” us a candle to use). It was a great experience as they even supplied fresh challah (why not?).

Havdalah was followed by a beautiful full dinner. Of course broiled chicken was available in addition to the many other entrees offered.Read more