Soul Spa

​In honor of the LA theatrical run of the documentary feature SABBATH QUEEN comes SOUL SPA, an adaptation of the Shabbat day service into an interactive musical experience which is everybody-friendly and God-optional, offering grounding, gratitude and contemplative conversations to lift up healing and hope. 

​Hosted by Rabbi Amichai Lau Lavi

​7:10PM of film SABBATH QUEEN at Laemmle’s The Royal to follow, tickets here.

​Soul Spa Schedule

• ​4PM: Doors open

• ​4:15PM: Ritual begins

• ​5.30PM: Havdalah with candles

• ​5.45PM: Ritual ends

​ARRIVAL NOTE

​The location where the google maps will take you is ACROSS THE STREET from the space. It is a grey building next to a pre-school and we will have clear signage out front. Call / text 908-403-6105 if you have any issues.

​ABOUT THE FILM

​SABBATH QUEEN (*trailer*) is a feature documentary filmed over 21 years, follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. SABBATH QUEEN joins Amichai on a lifelong quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual, challenge patriarchy and supremacy, champion interfaith love, and stand up for peace, ceasefire, and an end to the Occupation in Israel/Palestine. The film interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century.