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Pop-up pair launch new kind of prayer

Interview: Dina and Naftali Brawer

September 8, 2016 10:21
Dina and Naftali Brawer

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Simon Rocker,

Simon Rocker

2 min read

Over the past year, Rabbi Naftali and Dina Brawer have run a number of pop-up minyans every few weeks - an experimental Shabbat morning service in locations around London.

But now they are going into pop-up plus, holding High Holy Day services to launch their new enterprise, Mishkan, "a community beyond borders".

Instead of having a congregation tied to one neighbourhood, the Orthodox couple will have no fixed spiritual abode. Mishkan is the Hebrew name for the Tabernacle that accompanied the Israelites from place to place in their journey through the wilderness.

"Pop-up is a new interpretation of that," says Mrs Brawer. "The idea of creating a community around what people are passionate about is really important, rather than limiting yourself to the particular geography of where you happen to be or the particular denomination you're in or the group of friends you are with. What's beautiful is that it brings people together interested in the same thing, who would otherwise not meet."

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