Project Inspire Shabbaton

amother

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 6:15 am

They are having a shabbaton soon at the Armon
The dates are perfect for us and we really need a mini vacation

If you’ve gone in the past
How was it?
How was the food?
As a jpf will we feel comfortable?
We love to do Kiruv in a small scale.
We love inspirational shiurim.
But we visibly do look frum
If you went did you have a good time or did you family stay away from the shiurim because you felt uncomfortable.

dena613

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 6:19 am

Why would you feel uncomfortable?
I thought the target audience is people like you! Call them and ask.

amother

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 6:30 am

dena613 wrote:

Why would you feel uncomfortable?
I thought the target audience is people like you! Call them and ask.

Ok great
Either way we are going because I need a break, change of scenery, and the date is perfect for us.

We’ll need to get in Thursday Night

It’s at the Armon
Is there a minyan close by for Friday am?
That’s if there’s none at the hotel

dena613

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 6:49 am

I've never been, so still try to find information.
I can't imagine there's no minyan Friday morning there. The staff, mashgichim, etc. Have to be setting up.

amother

Birch

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 6:53 am

amother OP wrote:

Also haven't been to Project Inspire, but have been to Gateways and Arachim (a while back) which I assume is a similar demographic and you would fit right in. You will be center of the crowd frum wise

amother

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 7:27 am

amother Birch wrote:

Ok great
We are OOT
DH is a community RABBI. We do Kiruv
I didn’t want him to work, lol 🤪
But you never know who you’ll inspire
And I will also get inspired

How is the food at the Armon

amother

Olive

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 7:28 am

I went a few years ago. My husband was one of the few shtreimels there. We decided to go because we were going through some shakiness in our yiddishkeit and thought that the speeches would inspire us.

amother

Birch

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 7:28 am

amother OP wrote:

Ok great
We are OOT
DH is a community RABBI. We do Kiruv
I didn’t want him to work, lol 🤪
But you never know who you’ll inspire
And I will also get inspired

How is the food at the Armon

It was good.

STovah

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 7:54 am

They’re marketing this event to a frum audience. Not sure why you think you’d feel out of place.

amother

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 10:20 am

STovah wrote:

They’re marketing this event to a frum audience. Not sure why you think you’d feel out of place.

Oh I don’t know
I didn’t see the ad
I always thought it was for unaffiliated
I just need a mini vaca and the dates fit perfectly for a trip to NY I need to make

amother

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 10:22 am

amother Olive wrote:

Did it inspire
I can use some inspiration
Was the food good
Did you have an overall good time

amother

Olive

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 11:26 am

amother OP wrote:

Did it inspire
I can use some inspiration
Was the food good
Did you have an overall good time

The speeches were very nice. They had lots of amazing speakers. (Not really the magic that we needed) The food was good and plentiful. It was a very nice Shabbos.
As a visibly chassidish couple, we felt like we didn't really belong there. People kept commenting about us being chassidish, was weird.

amother

Tue, Jan 16 2024, 1:48 pm

amother Olive wrote:

We are definitely frum looking
DH has a beard
I wear a sheitel (not lace) and tznius
But I guess it’s different than chassidush
I think we’ll go because
1. I need the vacation
2. Perfect timing