500 GUESTS SHABBAT / LE CHABAT DES 500 INVITES

UJC (Hong Kong Reform Congregation) is organizing a special Shabbat this week. They want all their 500 members to invite or be invited by other members of the congregation. I think it's a wonderful idea.

L'UJC (la communaute Liberale de Hong Kong) organise cette semaine un chabbat special. Ils veulent que leurs 500 membres invitent ou soient invites par d'autres membres de la communaute. je trouve que c'est une super idee.

They announced it 2 months ago and Mark and I immediately proposed to host 5 to 6 guests. At the beginning they had a lot of hosts and almost no guests, but gradually things settled down. Last week, we were told the number and name of our guests  : a Venezuelian guy whom I have often seen in shul, a recently arrived French young lady whom I have seen once in shul and a couple I don't know (He is American, she is Chinese)... an interesting mixture...

Ils ont annonce le projet il y a deux mois et Mark et moi nous sommes tout de suite proposes comme hotes pour accueillir 5 ou 6 invites. Au debut, ils avaient plus d'hotes que d'invites, mais les choses se sont progressivement equilibres et la semaine derniere, on nous a fait savoir le nombre et les noms de nos invites : un homme Venezuelien que je vois souvent a la shul, une jeune Francaise recemment arrivee a Hogn Kong, et un couple lui est Americain et elle Chinoise.

Plus our friend from Paris Henri, who comes often to Hong Kong for his work and who happens to be here now and who asked me if he could bring a Hong Kong friend with him. She is very pro-Jews and pro-Israel, and she has recently organized a trip in Israel for Hong Kong eChief Executive.

  

Ajoutez a cela notre ami Henri de Paris, qui vient souvent a Hong Kong  pour le travail et qui est la en ce moment et qui a souhaite amener une amie Chinoise tres pro-semite et pro-Israelienne qui a recemment organise le voyage du Premier ministre de Hong Kong en Israel.

Reform people are very cool,we were given explanations on how to host a Shabbat. In the liflet all the priers and blessings and we were asked to take photos and to send them to UJC... Photos on Shabbat.... we were surprised... but in Rome do as the Romans do so we will have someone take photos! I will post them on the blog.

Les liberaux sont tres relax, nous avons recu des explications sur la facon de recevoir des invites pour Shabbat. Dans le mode d'emploi il y avait toutes les prieres et benedictions et on nous demanda de prendre des photos et de les envoyer a l'UJC... des photos a Shabbat... nous etions surpris... mais a Rome, fais comme les Romains alors nous demanderons a quelqu'un de prendre des photos! Je les mettrai sur le blog..