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Shavuot 5782

We are grateful and excited to be back in our home and look forward to a chag full of learning with friends, clergy, and with our Scholar-in-Residence,  

This year's Shavuot program will also inaugurate חלום דניאל, honoring the memory of our dear friend Daniel Barach z"l.

Friday Evening, June 3rd - Tikkun Leyl Shavuot

7:30 PM: Candle Lighting

7:35 PM: Mincha/Maariv in the BDJ Main Sanctuary
            -  Shiur between Mincha/Maariv

Shabbat Drasha - Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg or Aaron Finkelstein

8:00pm Shabbat Pre-Marariv - Rabbi Aaron Lerner

TIKKUN LEYL SHAVUOT

Young Professionals Learning Night: Sponsored by the Blumofe family in loving memory of                Rabbi Dr. David S Blumofe
All shiurim will take place in the BDJ Main Sanctuary

11:15: Tikkun Leil Shiur with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
           - The Impeachment of Rabban Gamleil

12:20 PM: Tikkun Leil Shiur with Rav Yosef
             - The Halachik-Ethical Transformation of Rabbi Tarfon

2:00 AM: Tisch

Saturday, June 4th - First Day Shavuot

4:58 AM - Earliest Tallis and Tefillin

9:15 AM - Morning Tefilla -  in the BDJ Main Sanctuary

Post-Davening Shiur

1:26 PM - Earliest Mincha

6:15 PM - Mid-Afternoon Shiur

7:30 PM - Mincha/Maariv with Rabbi Klapper  in the BDJ Main Sanctuary                                                         - Jefferson, FDR, and the Torah of Employer- Employee Relationships

Shiur between Mincha/Maariv

8:33 PM - Havdalah

Sunday, June 5th- Second Day Shavuot

4:57 AM - Earliest Tallis and Tefillin

9:15 AM - Morning Tefilla in the BDJ Main Sanctuary

Yizkor Drasha with Rav Yosef

12:15 PM - Intergenerational Lunch

1:24 PM- Earliest Mincha

6:15pm - 2nd Day Pre-Mincha (Marilynn Lowenstein Twilight Tikkun)                                                                                                     Speaker: Annual Marilynn Lowenstein Memorial Shiur this year is taught by Ms. Deborah Klapper - Wine, Veils, and Sitting in the Dark: Rut and Boaz as Tilkkun for their Ancestors  (Adults Only Please!)                                                                                                                     

7:35PM - Pre-Maariv with Rabbi Klapper - When Law and Morality Changes Faith or Great Talmudic Puns and Why They Matter

Visiting Scholar: Rabbi Aryeh Klapper

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership and Rosh Beit Midrash of its renowned Summer Beit Midrash program. He is a popular lecturer and author whose ideas and positions influence Orthodox communal policy on issues ranging from tuition, to abuse allegations, to mental health. He is also an internationally consulted posek whose writings on medical ethics, military ethics, and Jewish divorce are cited by both academic and traditional scholars.

Shavuot Yizkor Appeal

Your support of our shul throughout this past year, and your participation in our journey “back” have been inspiring and essential. As we remember our loved ones during Yizkor on Tuesday morning, let’s strengthen our ongoing efforts to provide meaningful Shabbat programing for our children and Teens. Please click here to make your contribution.

Shavuot Resources

  • Tefilla Guide for Shavuot can be accessed here.  Thank you again to Abe Rosenberg for compiling!
  • Check your mailboxes for BDJ's Shavuot Project (Third Edition)! The full Shavuot Project book is also available to download here.
  • Many thanks to our Shavuot Committee: Yael Weinstock Mashbaum, Harry Nelson, Rachel Olshin,      Ariel Stein, Rabbi David Stein, Mark Treitel
Fri, March 29 2024 19 Adar II 5784