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An Evening of Study Sessions, Food and More
The Tikkun Leil Shavuot is about learning. From studying Sefer Habakkuk to making pickles to learning how Christian interpretations of the Torah relate to antisemitism, there is something for everyone.
The evening includes the following concurrent sessions:
Post October 7 Israeli Poetry in Conversation with Traditional Texts – Michael Bonen
The Living Torah and its Relation to Christian Interpretation – Ed Gaskin
A tale leading to a Rabbinic Question – Joel Sussman
Pickling 101 – Paul Greenberg
God’s failures in the Torah and how they could be a model for how we can be Successful Human Beings – Irle Goldman
Singing at Sinai – Lorel Zar-Kessler
The Torah In Your Kishkes: Spiritual Texts on The Torah We Each Carry Within Us – Elie Lehmann
Yeshayahu Leibowitz: Iconoclastic Thinker and Uncompromising Critic – David Rozenson
What does it mean to “love your near one as yourself”? An historical perspective – Abigail Gillman
Rebellion or Situational Struggle: The Golden Calf Stories of Exodus and Kings and Bet Hillel – Bet Shammai Internecine Violence in the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds – Robbie Fein
Tuning into the Torah that You Need for Today: A Guided Meditation Through the Sefirot – Jeff Foust
What We Heard at Sinai – Howard Zilber
Project Zug – Havruta Study with study partners
The Tikkun Leil Shavuot is also about food. We will be serving light dinners at the following times and sessions:
6:00 pm – Family Tikkun and dinner in Adelson Hall
6:15 pm – Teen Tikkun dinner in Youth Lounge
6:15 pm – Pre-Tikkun dinner under the Brezniak Patio Tent
9:00 pm – Chag dinner during Project Zug under Brezniak Patio Tent
Desserts and Cheesecake will be served later in the evening.
Teens are invited to attend our Teen Tikkun.
More details coming soon!
Tikkun Leil Shavuot is a Joint Venture of Temple Emanuel and Minyan Ma’or
