Shavuot2022

Shavuot Schedule of Events

Cheesecake, Diary, and Niche Beer Share
Do you love to show off what you cook? Are you the teeniest bit competitive about the niche IPAs and Porters you buy (or brew yourself)? Bring a dairy (or vegan dairy) dessert for a tasting or show your Highland Park cred when you roll up with a growler of your fav for the group. This holiday features grain and dairy so anything in these categories will do! No meat or meat products or ingredients please! :-)

Se'udat Shlishit @ 7 PM, June 4th
We will be providing a light dinner and kicking off the evening by lining our stomachs. Start to get your learn on as we start our back-to-back mini classes during this time.

Havdalah + Tikkun Leil Shavuot @ 8:45 PM, June 4th
Once Shabbat is over (three stars in the sky) it is time for a special holiday kiddush (toast). Hang out for nourishing your body and mind. We're running mini classes until the last member drops. Bring your pjs or sleeping bag in case you nod off. Children are not just welcome, but encouraged in this communal non-slumber party.

Together we will do a deep dive into Jewish texts and a variety of Jewish topics. The custom for this holiday is to stay up as late as possible and see if you can pull an all-nighter (remember those?). If we make it to daybreak it will be time for the mystical Akdamut, a crazy AF poem written in Aramaic that includes an apocalyptic monster battle.

Shavuot Day II with Yizkor June 6th @10:15 am 

Cantor K and Rabbi Rosner are joined by Rabbi Chorny as we hold a special Second Day with Yizkor service. If you need to say kaddish or you super-duper love Torah reading, come and hear!

Wait, what is this holiday? Another Holiday...really?
Shavuot (also known as Pentecost or the Feast of Weeks) is a harvest holiday in the ancient Jewish calendar. It is marked by counting off a set number of days from the 2nd day of Passover and includes lots of components. Traditionally animals had weaned their young at this time of year and so the surplus of dairy led to a custom of eating it at this time. Judaism offers and alternative explanation (of course it does!) that the Israelites received the Torah at Mt. Sinai and realized they didn't have any kosher meat, so they ate dairy. It is customary to make sure and have two loaves of bread to symbolize the two tablets of the (Fifteen? No...) Ten Commandments. Practices also include decorating the synagogue and home with flowers and festive paper cuttings.