First Jewish Ancestral Skills Gathering

Melachot U’Vrachot may be the first event in American Jewish history that gathered Jews in one spot to do the melachot as they were originally categorized. And it was the first explicitly Jewish primitive skills gathering. While some melachot, like baking challah, are still widely practiced today, over the course of four days, participants also processed animals, made shofars, built friction fires, and practiced the original, ancient form of scribal arts.