FROM RABBI BERGMAN:
Shavuot schedule
Thursday, May 25
Mincha - 7:30 pm
Ma'ariv - 9:20 pm
** For the full Shavuot learning schedule, please click HERE.
*** Reminder to set an Eruv Tavshilin before the holiday. Instructions HERE
Friday, May 26, 2023
Shacharit - 9:30 am
Mincha - 6:55 pm
Ma'ariv - 7:15 pm
Shabbat, May 27, 2023 (Shavuot Day 2)
Shacharit - 9:00 am
Mincha - 8:15 pm
Ma'ariv - 9:35 pm
Havdallah - 9:35 pm
Dear community,
The great holiday of Shavuot is nearly upon us. The holiday of the giving of the Torah as we mention in our davening.
The Jerusalem Talmud teaches: "Even that which a seasoned student teaches as a novel idea was stated before Moses on Sinai.
Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin states this teaching as follows: "When G-d gave the Torah to Moses at Sinai, He included in it all future applications of its scholarship and wisdom — for the Jewish people and for the benefit of all of humanity, for all time to come."
How are we to conceptualize this idea? The famed Israeli singer, Idan Raichel, wrote in one of his songs: "Our forefathers are the roots and we the flowers." While we all stand as individuals, we do so an interconnected tapestry dating back from the birth of our people into the unborn future. Our novelties arise and build on the contributions and teachings of our ancestors.
Shavuot is the time to connect with these timeless eternal teachings of the Torah and in so doing ensure we are a link in our glorious chain of tradition.
Chag Sameach and Shabbat Shalom.
Learning schedule:
7:50 Dick Laub - Personal reflections of B'nai Brak
8:10 Ted Steinberg - When the Judges judge
8:30 Mitch Steinhorn - Influential Persons in my life
8:50 Gavriel Kuritzky - The Halachic Dateline
9:20 Maariv
9:45 Dinner
10:30 Phyllis Steinberg - The Other Among Us
10:50 Ron Cohen - Pi for Shavuot and why you always switch to the other door in “Let’s Make a Deal”
11:10 Paul Kuritzky - Slinging on the Plain
11:30 Ori Bergman - The Case for Anti-zionism
