Virtual Shavuot Box
Your Virtual Shavuot Box holds many ways to celebrate this holiday. Choose what nurtures you. Eat, listen, watch or read. Chag sameach!
May 30-31
Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., in a speech adapted from remarks delivered at RRCs graduation, discusses the importance and challenge of building covenantal communities. “Covenant,” writes Waxman, “is an ancient Jewish concept that places relationships at the center.”
Rabbinical student Jodi Rosenfeld’s poem is, by its very nature, a difficult-to-describe metaphor. Read it quietly or aloud and you’ll find a new way of thinking about Shavuot.
The litany of disturbing news can feel like a never-ending onslaught. Yet Rabbi Daria Jacobs-Velde teaches that Judaism offers a wellspring of resilience practices and Shavuot may be the perfect time to access this deep-seated wisdom.
Dating back to the sixteenth century, the all-night study session on erev Shavuot has been a custom in many Jewish communities. Can’t make it to a Tikkun Leil Shavuot? No problem, we’ve gathered everything you need.
