Havurah Shalom

Shavuot - Celebrate the Giving of the Torah!

Join us for a Shavuot Celebration: a night of noshing, music, and learning!

Bring a dairy dessert, or some other sweet noshing, or just yourself!

Childcare will be open! Kids in childcare are invited to make the night more fun by wearing PJs and bringing their favorite book.

All are welcome! Please scroll down and RSVP now.

If possible, please tell us in the registration notes if you expect to attend in person or on Zoom.

What to Bring

Havurah members, if you can, please bring some greenery or flowers and join us in decorating the bima and sanctuary.

We also invite you to bring a dairy (or non-dairy) desserts! And you can volunteer at Shavuot for a 30-minute shift. Thank you!

Not a member of Havurah? Just be our guest!

7:00 pm to 7:20 pm: Intro, songs — Shavuot has an abundance of agricultural customs, including bringing baskets of first fruits to temple and greening the shul by decorating with flowers, branches, and the special Jewish papercuts known as shavuosl.

7:20 pm to 8:30 pm: Learning session with Deborah Eisenbach-Budner — "Revelation: What is it? Who wants it? Who gets it? What do we do with it?" Shavuot celebrates the climax of our liberation from slavery: a covenant giving/receiving drama around Mt. Sinai. We will look at Torah text as well as enjoy some of Marc Chagall’s visual midrash on this central moment in Jewish sacred memory.

8:30 pm: Dessert break!

9:00 pm to 11:00 pm: More learning with Sally Goldman & Wil Waring from Solidarity Shabbat, followed by “Queer Culture in the Book of Ruth” with Diane Chaplin and “Historical Perspectives of Shavuot” with Howard Patterson.