Kesher Talk

Standing again at Sinai. I'm not going to be here for Shavuot, because I signed up for this for the third year in a row. Great davening, great study, great scenery (and maybe this year not freezing every night with intermittant hot water, for a change), great singing (I always come back with several wonderful new melodies for zmirot and liturgy), mediocre socializing. So I pack some reading material and leave the 20-somethings to their "Did I meet you two years ago at Pardes/Harvard/Schechter/JTS?" (Last year the organizers put all us old fogies in the same bunk, which was sweet.)

But seeing what gala events are planned for Manhattan, I kind of regret leaving town. If you're in NYC and want to get together with a lot of Jews doing that critical intelligence thing we are so famous for, check it out.

I have been very slack in the Jewish holiday blogging this year, and in past years I didn't write much about Shavuot at all. So I am going to make it all up to you now. While I am at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, I leave you with enough study material to last you all night, if you have no Tikkun Leil Shavuot in your area.

Aish Shavuot mega-site.
Torah.org Shavuot mega-site.
My Jewish Learning Shavuot mega-site.
Meaningful Life Shavuot mega-site.

Some sermons on Shavuot.
Merle Feld at Sinai, and more links.
Talmudic passages on Shavuot.
Festival of cheese.
Torah and Mishnah on The Bikkurim Ceremony

The only female soferet finishes her first Torah for a congregation.
A Shavuot-inspired meditation on the divine revelation of parenting.
Rachel's Shavuot tikkun last year.

posted by Judith @ 6/11/2005 10:32:00 PM