‘Part of Something Bigger’ at Northern Virginia Chabad Centers’ First Shabbaton

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‘Part of Something Bigger’ at Northern Virginia Chabad Centers’ First Shabbaton

Attendees lit Shabbat candles together. Courtesy of Chabad Lubavitch of Northern Virginia. Some attendees of the inaugural Northern Virginia Shabbaton stayed up until 2:30 a.m. listening to YouTube’s most popular rabbi talk about the meaning of life. More than 160 members of northern Virginia’s Jewish community heard from Rabbi Manis Friedman not through one of his videos but in person, because the event was electronics-free for Shabbat. Rabbi S…