Find Yourself in Torah for Shavuot!
LEARN
What is Shavuot about? How do we observe this day? Let’s dig in!
DO
Use our guides and resources to elevate your Shavuot and make it your own!
REFLECT
Open your heart to what Torah can mean in your life, right now. Why learn Torah?
Shavuot, one of the three pilgrimage festival holidays, celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai and the harvest of First Fruits, Yom haBikkurim.
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Finding Meaning in Communal Prayer Without Hebrew Fluency
Being in community, singing with heart, by listening to the prayers, or by intending to connect with G-d are ways to lift up our experience.
Asher Yatsar: My Favorite Blessing
Our bodies are wonderful and wondrous. Asher Yatsar helps us recognize our physical selves and offers a moment of gratitude to The Creator.
Talmudic Discussions on Monopolies
Where a monopoly offers a clear benefit to consumers, Jewish tradition does sanction them on a closely regulated basis.
Democracy in Post-Biblical Judaism (1948)
Rabbi Greenberg writes, many ideas matured in rabbinic thought, particularly "group of ethical values usually associated with the concept of Democracy."
Overview of the Morning Service
Rabbi Dr. Karen Reiss Medwed, The Observant Life (Book)
May 15, 2023
Every Day Morning Service (Shacharit)
Every day of the year, the Morning Service follows some variation of the order of the same Sharcharit prayers.