Programs for All Ages: Celebrate the Holiday of Shavuot with Torah and Community

The Tikkun Leil Shavuot is back! Join the local community for prayer, study, and schmoozing until sunrise (or at least until your bedtime). The Tikkun Leil Shavuot ("repair of the night of Shavuot") is a Kabbalistic practice that began in the Middle Ages. According to legend, the Israelites overslept the morning they were to receive the Torah at Mt. Sinai, and Moses had to hurriedly wake them up! To avoid making that mistake again, we stay up all night on Erev Shavuot, studying and preparing to celebrate the giving of the Torah the next morning.

Check out this schedule of the Shavuot program. (Zoom links not included. For a complete program with Zoom links included, please register using the form below.)

Registering with Kol Emeth is not required, but is strongly encouraged and appreciated.

YOUTH

• 5:30-7:00 PM — Shavuot for Young Families (Outdoors)
  Families with kids ages 0-5 are invited to a Shavuot pizza and ice cream party, with music, movement and stories.
• 7:00-10:00 PM— Shavuot for K-7th Graders (Outdoors)
  K-7th graders are invited to explore the themes of Shavuot through games, stories, crafts, music and more! Plus, make Mt. Sinai ice cream sundaes!

ADULTS

• 7:20 PM: Torah study with Beth Am’s own Rabbi Sarah Weissman, followed by four speakers. Topic: "From Abraham and Ruth to WWII and Ukraine — Jews on the Move and the Torah that Sustains Us."
• 9:15 PM: Shavuot Evening Service
• 10:00 PM: Learning Session I
• 11:00 PM: Learning Session II
• 12:00 AM: Blintzes Served
• 12:30 AM: Closing Event
  Gather to sing and share Torah from the night.

***For a complete program schedule that includes Zoom links, please log in to register using the form below.***

A Special Request
The community comes together from a wide variety of backgrounds and approaches to ritual observance. As a community we want to respect Minhag Hamakom, the custom of the place in which we are gathered. As Shavuot falls into the category of Yom Tov, certain types of melacha (work) are prohibited by traditional Jewish law. Please help us observe the minhag of Congregation Kol Emeth by refraining from writing, cell phone use and use of other electronic devices. Thank you.

COVID Protocols

• Masks are strongly recommended.
• Kol Emeth will be hosting sessions in the largest classrooms and doors will be open.
• Food will be served outdoors.

Hosted by Congregations Kol Emeth, Beth Am, Etz Chayim and Keddem, together with Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, Kehillah Jewish High School, and the Oshman Family JCC.

Learn more about Shavuot 2022.