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In the 11th century the composer of the Akdamut asked: How do Gesa Ederberg The Akdamut: an Aramaic we approach , and what can we learn about the Holy 18:00 (Berlin, Germany) Preface to our Torah Reading One, based on what is hidden between the words on parchment? Let’s explore!

Rabbi Jonathan 18:30 Wittenberg (London, When God Said “I" Hasidic insights on the first commandment UK)

The Sages teach that, spiritually speaking, we were all present for the giving of Torah, and that Torah is revealed to us anew each day. They also teach that Torah is multi-vocal, speaking to each one of us individually. We’ll begin our session by delving into a Standing at the Foot of Sinai: few short rabbinic texts, and - using creative writing and 19:00 Rabbi Debra Cantor Who is with You and What expressive abstract art - reflect on what they say to us after a year Do You Hear? of pandemic. Please bring a pencil or pen and any kind of paper, plus any kind of art supplies you have: colored pencils, crayons, watercolors, whatever. (Just pencil and paper is fine, too.) Absolutely no experience needed!

If Sinai represents maturity, then the Omer is the period of youth. Reflections on the Omer, Each has its importance and its limitations. With the help of texts 19:30 Rabbi Gordon Tucker Sinai, and the Fate of Our from our tradition and the writing of a prominent Planet environmentalist, who is also a person of faith, we will get a better understanding of the stakes in getting the balance right. Name Session Title Session Description

An analysis of the second blessing of the Amidah and the prayer Why is the Resurrection of for waking up followed by a comparison with the prominence of 20:00 Rabbi Reuven Kimelman the Dead so Prominent in our the resurrection of the dead in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, and Liturgy? Christianity.

Rabbis Robyn M Fryer When is a Name More Than An exploration of the meaning of the names and places in 20:30 Bodzin & Steve Wernick a Name? Megillah Ruth.

Rabbis Ellen Wolintz- What does Pirkei Avot Teach Where can we turn for wisdom, insights, and lessons during 21:00 Fields & Margie Cella Us in the Time of COVID? COVID-19? Pirkei Avot of course!

Ljuständning i Obs! De följande shiurim äger rum efter att jom tov redan 21:18 Jom tov börjar. Stockholm har börjat i Sverige:

The pandemics has obliged us to move online, and the Torah Rabbi Ariel Torah Competition in the 21:30 market has instantly opened for everybody. Is this competition Stofenmacher Online World kosher? Is it avoidable?

A section of from Pesikta d'Rav Kahana teaches that at Mount Sinai, the people saw and heard God in a manner The Many Faces and Voices 22:00 Rabbi Sydni Rubinstein customized to their needs and emotions. Together, we'll learn text of God and take time to reflect on our own ways of hearing and seeing God each and every day. Name Session Title Session Description

Yoga for Yids is real yoga for people in real bodies, and it's Yoga for Yids: Shavuot Yoga 22:30 Hazzan Joanna Dulkin unapologetically Jewish. Join us for a multi-level, active yoga Flow class where Jewish text and tradition inform our practice.

Psalms are our people’s playlist, encompassing the full range of expression to God. Psalm 132 is tied to the holiday of Shavuot as A History of the Holy Ark as the verses deal with the communal vessel for the Ten 23:00 Rabbi Elie Spitz Presented in Psalm 132 Commandments. We will examine the literary artistry of the Psalm and what it says to us today about our relationship with Israel as a sacred center.

Abraham Joshua Heschel famously remarked that "in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible." In this session, Heschel on Freedom and we will explore the relationship between freedom and 23:30 Rabbi William Plevan Responsibility responsibility in Heschel's thought and its implications for understanding how we live by divine commandments in a democracy.

How are notions of the Jewish body and Jewish power parallel The New Jewish Body – and perpendicular with other cultural norms? We will explore 24:00 Rabbi Mike Uram Jewish Power Resurrected writings of A.D Gordon both in the contexts of Zionist thought and as a religious text unto themselves.

Rabbi Lisa Gelber & Moving Forward, Standing 0:30 Cantor Danielle This service of strength, hope and healing interweaves teachings Still Bensimhon of Peloton instructions with texts of our tradition. Join us for song Name Session Title Session Description

and silence, poetry and prayer as we meet at the sacred mountain of love and resilience.

Revelation can be seen as a transmission of law, but we will look at it from a psycho-theological point of view as an act of love, 1:00 Rabbi David Wolpe Revelation as an Act of Love and one that roots the Jewish tradition in love, using rabbinic texts and modern Jewish philosophy.

Known commonly as "the bathroom blessing," Asher Yatzar is, in its original Talmudic context, an insightful spiritual meditation on Angels in the Outhouse: The the body, in which we acknowledge with God the mystery of our 1:30 Rabbi Dan Ornstein Mystery and Majesty of the bodies' power and fragility. We will look at this classic Jewish the Blessing, Asher Yatzar prayer in its original setting of the Talmud and talk about its relevance for us today.

What are the core values of being a part of the Jewish people? Let's explore ancient and modern texts as we reflect on the 2:00 Rabbi Rachel Ain Community and Covenant meaning of community and covenant during this holiday where all of us can embrace being part of the Jewish people.

We don't read Job. It's not read in the yearly cycle of synagogue life. We don't teach it in Hebrew School. Most Jews don't know The Bible's Most Unlikely 2:30 Rabbi Ed Feinstein it's in our Bible. Too bad. Because for the patient reader, Job is a Book model of theological reflection on life's toughest questions, and a paradigm of a sophisticated religious culture. Let's take a look.... Name Session Title Session Description

Counting Time, Making We will explore sources on the counting of sacred time and what 3:00 Rabbi Cheryl Peretz Time Count it means in the life of an individual and for the Jewish people.

Both traditional and new-age teachings locate happiness in practices of daily gratitude, but sometimes, gratitude can do more 3:30 Rabbi Dahlia Bernstein Harmful Gratitude harm than good. Let's transform our experience of joy, change, and connection.

If the depiction of Sinai in the Book of Exodus is "at best a Knowing the Unknowable: midrash," how can we then expand on that idea to appreciate 4:00 Rabbi Gerry Skolnik An Appreciation of Heschel's other elements of human experience that are beyond the scope of Understanding of Revelation our understanding?

What happens when individual or communal needs are When Personal and Public 4:30 Rabbi Amy Bardack incompatible with Jewish practice? We will look at Talmudic Needs Interfere with Mitzvot texts that mediate these conflicts.

How do we know the pandemic is over? What does Jewish ethics tell us about when the risk of a particular activity is "acceptable"? If certain practices or rulings were adopted on an emergency basis, when does that permission expire? What if local and 5:00 Rabbi Joshua Heller Are We There Yet? national governments, medical advisors, and clergy or lay leaders all disagree? We won’t offer a conclusive answer to these questions but we will provide a toolbox of sources and concepts that will help bring Jewish values into these thorny conversations. Name Session Title Session Description

Rabbi Jenni Greenspan When Good Humility Turns We will examine the first moments that the Israelites encounter 5:30 & Rabbinical Student Rancid manna, and what it means to trust that God will provide. Kaylie Romano

We all recognize Ruth as a paragon of goodness. Yet her choices A Vision for Human can’t be adequately understood by the most common ethical Rabbi Neal Joseph 6:00 Flourishing: Virtue Ethics in theories, such as utilitarianism or duty-based ethics (deontology). Loevinger the Book of Ruth Rather, Ruth’s story illustrates philosophical ideas about the purpose and flourishing of our lives together.

How do we offer a response to (manufactured) cynicism in our current age? When our footing is not secure, how can we carry Rabbis Neil Blumofe & What the Darkness is For: on, teaching Torah and serving as an example to others similarly 6:30 Gail Swedroe Torah in a Haunted Age lost in the forest? We will remain alert as we study and sing together, celebrating Torah amid the quaking and booming thunder all around us.

USY leaders: Stephanie Gender: A Jewish Story Explore gender in the modern-day through a discussion of the 7:00 Sussman & Sarah Through the Ages first mention of gender in the Torah: creation! Hasson

Not for Converts Only: What We often think of conversion only in terms of mikveh and brit does "Accepting the Yoke of milah (or hatafat dam brit, its symbolic equivalent). As important 7:30 Rabbi Jonathan Lubliner the Commandments" Really as these rituals are, the act of kabbalat ol mitzvot, the Jew-by- Mean? choice's binding acceptance of the "yoke of the commandments" is at the heart and soul of conversion. But what, exactly, does it Name Session Title Session Description

mean to accept the "yoke of the commandments"? What are its practical implications for observance? By exploring both classical and contemporary sources on conversion, we'll seek to get a better handle on what our tradition has to say about becoming -- and being -- Jewish. As we symbolically stand once again at Sinai on Shavuot, nothing could be more relevant to all of us who choose to receive Torah in our daily lives.

If you are praying for restored health for yourself or a loved one, if you have recently suffered a loss, or if you searching for Shavuot-Themed Healing 8:00 Rabbi Bryan Wexler comfort and hope during these uncertain times, this service is for Service you. Through prayer, stories, and song, we will strive to find healing, strength, and hope in one another.

We have the written Torah, the oral Torah, and the knowledge that torah can be found everywhere--but what exactly does Pop Pirkei Avot: Sage 8:30 Rabbi Jenna Stein Turow "everywhere" mean? Join me to explore how various popular Advice from Pop Music music teaches us torah and connects to the wisdom we find in the Jewish literary canon.

Rabbis Adam Kligfeld, Rebecca Schatz, Cantor Join the Temple Beth Am clergy team for a soul-quenching hour 9:00 Michelle Stone, and Niggun & Nourishment of song, Torah, and meditation as we come together in the wee Rabbi Cantor Hillary hours of the tikkun to recenter. Chorny Name Session Title Session Description

Explore how the Book of Lamentations and psalms of lament can Using Lament to Empower 10:00 Rabbi Gideon Estes empower us to explore challenges in our lives and feel through Ourselves our feelings.

1967 and the return to the Old City of Jerusalem marked a shift in Shavuot in Jerusalem Then 10:30 Rabbi Hannah Estrin the place of Shavuot in the consciousness of Israelis. Experience and Now the last 100 years of Shavuot in Jerusalem.

Why do we do commandments? Is it to get a reward or to know that we did the right thing? As we celebrate the giving of the The Reward for Observing Torah we will examine rabbinic teachings about whether we do 11:00 Rabbi Ben Herman Mitzvot: In This World or the commandments for extrinsic or intrinsic purposes and what our Next? sages have to teach about whether there is a reward in this world or in the world to come.

The story of Rahab and the spies has been approached by everyone from Rashi to Tikva Frymer Kensky as a case in which we are attempting to square a hermeneutic circle, namely how a 11:30 Rabbi Scott A Hoffman Rahab Revisited zonah can also be a heroine. My thesis is that the term zonah can be construed not as an expression of moral opprobrium but a reflection of social power.

Shavuot is the marriage ceremony, but throughout the Omer, we've been on a journey strengthening our relationship with the 12:00 Hazzan Jesse Holzer Love Songs After Dark divine. Join us as we explore and sing through some of the greatest love songs of our people. Name Session Title Session Description

What are the most important ideas we need to transmit to the next Rabbis Randall Ideas We Need to Teach All generation? Why are they important and how can we help our 12:30 Konigsburg & Hillel Jewish Children (And Adults children understand their importance? A conversation between Konigsburg Too) two generations of Rabbis (in the same family!).

Hazzan Sara Geffen Why I think Boaz is a great role model for young men, young 13:00 Let Boys Be Boaz! Geller women, and anyone else.

The last year has presented us with many challenges--globally, physically, socially, and emotionally. Even as our country starts to open back up, many of us find ourselves feeling many of the Finding Comfort in Uncertain same emotions we were feeling when the pandemic started-- 13:30 Rabbi Steven Henkin Times anxiety, fear, frustration, loneliness, overwhelm, and just plain boredom. Our discussion will focus on sources from our tradition that can provide us comfort, either by reminding us we are not alone or helping us reframe our emotions.

In this session we will explore the how's and why's of our prayer choreography. We will delve into why we do what we do, when 14:00 Cantor Wendi Fried The Holy Hokey Pokey we do what we do and how much more meaningful our prayer can be when we pray with the whole of our beings.

How do I receive the gift of Torah when I can't be 'there' in As if I Stood at Sinai - Two 14:30 Rabbi David Ackerman person? Two Hebrew poems - one medieval and mystical, one Revelation Poems contemporary and practical - anticipate life and the possibility of religious experience during lockdown. A close reading of both Name Session Title Session Description

will 'reveal' to us the art of 'being there' without actually, physically 'being there'.

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch said "our calendar is our Rabbi Debra Newman Journey through the Jewish 15:00 catechism". We will explore the story it tells about our Jewish Kamin Calendar journey.

Moses as Entrepreneur: The What valuable lessons we can learn from Moses' leadership that 15:30 Tom Sudow Original leader of the Startup we can take to our daily and business lives? Nation

We are at a pivotal time in shul business. Is breaking away from Herd Mentality vs the generational camp of herd mentality treif? Or is standing at 16:00 Cantor Penny Myers Individuality at Sinai the foot of Har Sinai with an individual trajectory kosher? God has secrets. Are we also to keep secrets when secrecy can hurt?

Thinking of the great stories of Mishna and Talmud through a 16:30 Rabbi Ari Averbach Cinegogue cinematic lens.

The Ten Commandments are seen as the legal foundation for Finding New Meaning in the western civilization, but they are so much more. Each 17:00 Rabbi Stewart Vogel Ten Commandments commandment addresses elements of human nature that need to be subdued and help us elevate ourselves to a holy existence. Name Session Title Session Description

How did the story of Ruth influence Dr. Bianca Gonzalez-Lesser to embrace ? What do they bring to their new role as From Puerto Rico to Hillel Diversity Talent Manager at Hillel International, and what can we Rabbi Ilana Garber & Dr. International: Latina, Jew-by- 17:30 learn from them about diversity in our communities? Rabbi Ilana Bianca Gonzalez-Lesser Choice, and Queer - A Case Garber, Director of Global Rabbinic Development and the creator Study in Jewish Inclusion of this Conservative/Masorti movement 24-hour Tikkun Leil Shavuot, will interview Bianca.