Apologies for the silence, I was away during Pesach visiting family (our community consists mostly of incomers, and many people visit family during Pesach). We had a communal sedar for those people who stayed in Aberdeen. this attracted about 15 people.
The Aberdeen University Jewish Student Society organised a shabbat dinner last Friday. This got a really nice crowd, over 30 people in all, including some visitors from Edinburgh and St Andrews. We easily made a minyan (at least 15 men), and enjoyed a nice meal afterwards, most of which was provided by the students! Many thanks to Aberdeen JSoc!
Today Rabbi Rose visited from Aberdeen. We were pleasantly surprised when a visitor in his 60s wandered in, who turned out to be someone who was a teenager in Aberdeen in the 1950s! Apparently the shul looks just the same as back then, including mostly the same furniture. Its really nice to have a visitor like this, as most of us are incomers we don't have a strong sense of the history of the community. Afterwards Rabbi Rose led a shiur, which discussed Lag B'Omer and the fact that the rabbis decided that military might was a bad idea after the Bar Kochba revolt in 132CE
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