[Avodah] A New Women's Vaad

[The AishDas Team]

Dear Areivim and Avodah members,

We would like to invite you to join a new endeavor -- we are calling for
people to join a new women's mussar vaad through AishDas. Feel free to
forward this email to women you think may be interested.

For over a year, AishDas has been running e-Va'adim with tremendous
success. The AishDas model for an "e-Vaad" is a bi-monthly telephone
conference call intended to help a group of people learn and support
each other in growing through mussar. The format which we found most
successful is based on Sefer Alei Shur from R' Shlomo Wolbe. The outline
of each Vaad generally follows this format: Members first report on
their progress working on the "homework" from the previous Vaad, then
a new Vaad in Alei Shur is presented by the (rotating) leader for that
evening, and then a new task is presented for the following weeks. We
are considering other sefarim that may be more appropriate for a women's
e-vaad, but the format will remain the same -- reporting on progress
and encouraging one another, learning about a midda, and homework for
the next week Between Vaadim, members interact via a chavrusa system
and a Vaad-wide email list for mutual feedback and support.

We are glad to report that after over a year of running the vaad, the
vaad members have agreed that it is a successful endeavor; all have
noticed improvement in their middos, and recently expanded to another
men's vaad.

Now that we have experience with this kind of program and the loose
details have been worked out we would like to invite you, in the name
of AishDas, to join a new Vaad for women, patterned after the successful
format of the original vaadim, which still continue.

Please email Shayna Korb (shayna.korb at gmail.com) if you're interested
in joining or finding out more.

We will probably be starting within the next few weeks.

Kol Tuv,
The AishDas team