Shavuot
This year’s Tikkun Leil Shavuot, on the first night of Shavuot, is sponsored by Fred and Marcia Schulman, in memory of Fred’s parents, and by Barry and Margaret Herzog.
12:00PM-12:45AM
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot
“Decision or Division?: Majority and Minority Opinions in the Halakhic Process”
12:50AM-1:00AM
Fred Schulman
“Remarks in Memory of Fred’s Parents”
1:15AM-2:00AM
Jessica Langer
“Encounter with the Divine: Why Me?”
2:10AM-2:55AM
Barry Herzog
“There is a Time and Place for Everything: A Practical Guide to Sacrifice”
3:05AM-3:50AM
Alex Guttman
“How the early Targumim, R' Saadia Gaon and Maimonides Interpreted Anthropomorphic Passages (as they relate to G-D) in the Torah”
4:00AM-4:45AM
Alisa Danon Kaplan
"Thank you, Montezuma--The Halachot of Chocolate"
4:55AM
Shacharit
Refreshments served throughout the night.
Other Community Learning
Jewish Center of Teaneck
Tikkun Leil Shavuot- Civility in Communal Discourse
In the Merit of a Complete Healing for Chavah Bat Sarah, Yvonne Myers
11:00-11:45 PM Shiur with Rabbi Fridman Like One Man with One Heart: The Sources of Jewish Unity
12:00- 12:45 AM Shiur with Yigal Gross, esq. Negotiating Beliefs: How to Achieve Jewish Communal Debate Where Everyone
Wins
JLE Shavuos Program will take place at the home of Shapiro's at 100 Cherry Lane, Teaneck, NJ
11:30 PM - Rabbi Mark Staum will speak on "The Concept of Kedusha (Holiness) in Jewish Thought"
12:15 AM - Menachem Shapiro will speak on "Why do we Eat Milchig (Dairy) on Shavuos"
1:00 AM - Rabbi David Pietruszka will speak on "Concepts Related to Laws of Geirus (Conversion) from Megillas Rus"
Congregation Beth Aaron
11:30pm Women’s Learning: “Cut Off and Connection: Discussion and Review of Torah and Psychological Sources” at the home of Esther East, 265 Cherry Lane
12:00 a.m. Shalom Fisch Siyum on Seder Mo’ed \לז“נ Rabbi ז“ל Fisch Stanley
12:15 a.m. Rabbi Larry Rothwachs “The Most Fascinating Shailot of the Past Year”
1:30 a.m. Rabbi Daniel Goldberg “How Saadia Gaon Misinterpreted Tehillim and Saved Judaism as We Know It”
2:30 a.m.Rabbi Mark Staum “Fortune Tellers, Palm Readers and Mekubalim: Segulot and Superstition in Jewish Thought”
3:30 a.m. Rabbi Larry Rothwachs “Rabbi, Is This Pot Kosher?”: Torah Perspectives on Recreational and Medical Use of Marijuana” 5:00 p.m.
