Heirlooms Recording Archive

You are invited to Rabbi Amichai’s Heirlooms: 7 Sessions Study Series from 2023.

The series was pre-recorded for continued exploration and learning. Each of the 7, 90-min videos are available to you for a donation of your choosing. With your gift, you help fuel Lab/Shul to create evocative, meaningful and spiritual content for you: our beloved community!

About the Series:
What’s the History of the Seven Most Popular Jewish Symbols and their Secrets of Spiritual Survival?

For 3,000 years, across continents, Jews have adapted to shifting civilizations and cultures, creating essential and symbolic household objects that refine Jewish life and define Judaic legacy.

Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie led this series of seven interactive online study sessions that explored essential Judaic objects, their surprising histories and enduring purpose as practical portals for personal growth and communal connection.

The seven heirlooms offered in this course are not the only ones that matter, but explored together, through post-patriarchal and critical lenses, each has old secrets and new stories for us to learn from and celebrate.
*This study series was formerly titled ‘Secret Seven’.

VIDEOS ARE PRE-RECORDED // Themes + Topics:
Oct 16 – Threshold Amulet: Why the Mezuzah Guards our Doorways
Oct 23 – Sabbath Table : Gastro-Judaic Secret Recipes to Survival of Stomach & Soul
Oct 30 – Prayer Shawl: The Semitic Second Skin
Nov 13 – Sunrise, Sunset: Secrets of the -Solar Lunar Calendar
Dec 4 – Super Star of David: What’s the Story of the Six Pointed Star?
Dec 11 – Light my Fire: (Hanukkah) – Why Fire is the Heart and Hearth of Sacred Jewish Time
Dec 18 – Outside the Charity Box: How to Cultivate Communal Care