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For women
Women at Chabad
Somebody to talk to first, and things to come to after that. Nobody will ask you to join anything, because there is nothing to join.
Who to talk to
Mussi Weinfeld
Mussi will make half an hour for you about anything at all — something happening at home, a decision you would like to talk through with somebody who is not in the middle of it, a question you have been carrying around for years. You do not need a reason, and you do not need to be a member of anything, because there is nothing to be a member of.
Women, life, family, children, education and the Mikvah. Conversations are treated privately and confidentially.
If it is urgent, ring rather than book.
Shabbat
Candle lighting is 6:02 PM. Lighting Shabbat candles is the mitzvah women have kept for the household since Sarah.
What Mussi runs
Torah & Tea
An hour of Torah, tea and good company, most weeks, on a Tuesday. It assumes no background whatsoever — there is nothing to catch up on, no text you were supposed to have read, and no question that is too basic to ask out loud.
It runs online, which means you can be at it with a child asleep on you and nobody minds.
The current time, and how to get the link
The Rosh Chodesh Society
A monthly evening for women around the start of each Hebrew month — a set course of study rather than a drop-in, taken a chapter at a time, with the evening as much the point as the chapter.
Rosh Chodesh has an old connection to women specifically — there is more about that, and about what the day is, on the Rosh Chodesh page.
Baking together
There is a lot of Challah in this community and most of it gets made in company. Loaves of Love — shaping, baking and delivering challahs to seniors and neighbors who could use one — is the standing version of that, and it is the easiest thing on the whole site to turn up to cold.
If you are asking about a women’s bake specifically, or about learning to braid a six-strand Challah, or about taking Challah with the blessing for the first time, ask — that is a conversation rather than a sign-up sheet.
Loaves of Love, and the other ways people help
The Mikvah
There is a Mikvah in San Jose, open by appointment every night of the year. Where it is, what a first visit is like, and how to book are all on the mikvah pages, which are private, detailed and answer far more than most people expect.
Everything else women do here
Most of what happens at the Chabad House is not divided by anything — the Shabbat dinners, Kiddush after Shabbat morning, the holiday programs, the Russian-speaking community, and the volunteering that keeps all of it standing. This page is the corner of it that is specifically for women; it is not the whole of where you would fit.
Practical Jewish life at home — candles, kashrut, the Mezuzah on your own door — is on at home, and every class we run, not only this one, is on Torah classes.
Asking
Call 408-910-2034 and ask for Mussi, write to Info@chabadalmaden.com, or use the contact form. If what you want to know is simply “is anything on for women this week”, that is a perfectly good question and the fastest way to get it answered is the phone.
Chabad of Silicon Valley · 5580 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118