The community gathers twice a day and stops work to do it. Minchah opens with a circle dance to live music, then anyone present may speak — a word, a song, a correction, a thank you — and the Friday sunset gathering that opens the Sabbath adds the breaking of bread and wine. Visitors are invited and often startled, since the dancing is unselfconscious and the speaking is unscripted. Members describe the two gatherings a day as the thing that makes a community of strangers into a household, and as the practice they would miss most.