Your Role
Passover in the Desert is a co-created and communal experience with collective responsibilities for service in areas like cooking and teaching. We will be organized into tribes for ease of communication, service, and so you can get to know a smaller group of people. The success and beauty of our village will rely on our agreements for living harmoniously in community.
Cooking
Every member of the community will serve the community by cooking and/or cleaning up one meal. Cooking with our chef, Avishai Pearlson, is both a fun learning experience and a great opportunity to prepare our community’s food together.
Teaching
Wilderness Torah is building a community ecology that serves as a platform for community enrichment, education, collaboration and exchange. For example, participants voluntarily provide programs and workshops at Wilderness Torah festivals like Passover in the Desert, allowing Wilderness Torah to offer innovative educational opportunities, while providing a platform for teachers to develop and launch new ideas and expose their talents to the Wilderness Torah community. Click here if you would like to offer a teaching or class at Passover in the Desert.
The Planning Team and other Volunteer Opportunities
A Passover in the Desert Planning Team of 15 people has been hard at work since early January to help organize the festival. Please thank them for their service! When you register, you will be asked if you’d like to help the planning committee by volunteering for a couple hours in the week or two leading up to the event.
Group Gear
Wilderness Torah provides all major structures for cooking, comfort and learning. We ask that participants bring tapestries, pillows and rugs to help decorate our sacred spaces. We also love homegrown food! Let us know if you have food from a fruit tree or an overflowing garden that you’d like to offer.
Tribes and Chieftains
Tribes are small, randomly assigned groups of about eight people who come together for specific aspects of the festival, including a designated “Tribe Time” each day. It’s a way for people to get to know each other, go deeper in our experiences with the comfort of a smaller group, and make communication more efficient.
Tribes will also prepare or clean up food together for their assigned meal and co-create their part in the Tribal Seder on Saturday night. Tribes may also camp together and create a shared Tribe space.
Each tribe has designated a chieftain. Chieftains are the communication link between the central planning team and you, and will be decided upon before the festival. Chieftains will have one pre-festival meeting and will help facilitate the Tribe onsite.
Work Exchange
There are a limited number of onsite work-exchange positions available in areas from set-up and break-down to childcare and kitchen management. Please contact info@wildernesstorah.org for more information. Work-exchange applications are due on February 15.
Help Someone Else Go
We want to offer $2000 in scholarships and work-exchange positions for Passover in the Desert this year, so that everyone who wants to come is able. Please consider purchasing a ticket at a higher price to enable someone with less money to attend. If you’ve already purchased a ticket or if you’re not coming to the desert, and you’d still like to donate to the scholarship fund, simply do so here. You can also donate an item to our wishlist!
