<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><div class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Dear Areivim and Avodah members,</div><div class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">We would like to invite you to join a new endeavor - we are calling for members to join a new AishDas e-Vaad.</div><div class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">
<br></div>For over a year, we have been running an AishDas e-Va'ad with tremendous success. The AishDas model for an e-Vaad is a bi-monthly telephone conference call . 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. Between Vaadim, members interact via a chavrusa system and a Vaad-wide email list for mutual feedback and support. (We are also exploring other options for Vaad-member communication, such as using various social networking sites.)<div class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">We are glad to report that after over a year of running this Vaad, the vaad members have agreed that it is a successful endeavor. All of us have noticed improvement in our middos, and, in many cases, so have our wives.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Now that we have experience with this kind of program and the loose<span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "> details have been worked out we would like to invite you</span>, in the name of AishDas, to join a new Vaad, patterned after the successful format of the original Vaad, which still continues. (We are not expanding the original e-Vaad, as we have reached the optimal size).</span></span><div class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Please email Yosef Skolnick (<a href="mailto:yskolnick@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">yskolnick@gmail.com</a>) or Moshe Yehuda Gluck (<a href="mailto:mgluck@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">mgluck@gmail.com</a>) if you are interested in finding out more. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">We will probably be starting within the next few weeks. We will be beginning, IY'H, with the middah of Hislamdus, followed by the middah of Chessed. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Kol Tuv,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">
</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Moshe Yehuda Gluck and Yosef Skolnick</div><div><br></div></div></span>