Mat-Su Jewish Center Chabad hosting event at Palmer Depot

The Mat-Su Jewish Center Chabad will be hosting a public event on April 27 at the Palmer Train Depot titled, A Fireside Chat: Building a Better World.

The program celebrates Education and Sharing Day with a presentation by world-renowned Jewish author Rabbi Simon Jacobson about his book, Toward a Meaningful Life, and will be moderated by MyHouse Founder and CEO Michelle Overstreet.

“It’s going to be a very inspirational, very exciting, very fun evening. We highly encourage everyone to join,” Rabbi Mendy Greenberg of the Mat-Su Jewish Center Chabad said.

The event is meant to communicate to the community different ways that they can better themselves and make change in an ever-changing world. Rabbi Jacobson is respected as a top scholar that memorized and recorded the teachings of the greatest Jewish sage of recent times, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Rabbi Jacobson’s book takes those teachings and gives them an applicable message for a wide audience on how to live a better life.

“The book, Toward a Meaningful Life, is speaking about all aspects of life,” Rabbi Greenberg said. “What [Jacobson] brings out of there is how to live and how to live more meaningfully as an individual, as a community and as the world at large.”

Doors open at 5 p.m. on April 27th and the program begins at 5:45 p.m. Included in the free event is a dinner buffet with dairy free, gluten free and kid friendly options available. Thrive Mat-Su will be hosting a children’s program in conjunction with the fireside chat.

The program is hosted in partnership with the Mat-Su Health Foundation, The People’s Paper, The Children’s Place, Big Cabbage Radio, Make a Scene Media, Friends of Wasilla Public Library, Friends of the Palmer Public Library, Mat-Su Sentinel, MyHouse, Thrive Mat-Su, Khitz 107.1 and Q 99.7

Attendees will enjoy an uplifting message and a question and answer session at the end of the program. Rabbi Greenberg hopes that those in attendance will take away a deeper understanding of their true potential and how they can tap into that to better themselves and their communities.

“I think that this message is now needed more than ever,” Rabbi Greenberg said. “We’re living in a time where there’s a lot of strife between ourselves, in our communities, in the world at large. There’s a lot of uncertainty, there’s a lot of unrest. And it brings us back to thinking about living with purpose and meaning, seeing what unites us more than divides us and making the world a better place, in a real way.”

This free event is open to the public. Those looking to attend are encouraged to RSVP at: https://www.matsujewishcenter.org/fireside