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February 3, 2012 | 10th Sh'vat 5772
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Tikkun Leil Shavuot

Shavuot is considered to be the anniversary of the Giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Tikkun Leil Shavuot is the custom of staying up the entire night (leil) of Shavuot studying with the community in order to relive the experience of standing at Sinai.

The programs below offer numerous lesson plans for workshops. Three of the programs (Honoring Our Past, Envisioning Our Future: Reform Judaism in the 21st Century; Megillat Ruth: Journeying Toward the Sacred; and The Voice Still Speaks) have accompanying videos.

Programs for Congregations
  • Successful Congregational Shavuot Programs
    Many URJ congregations have Shavuot-related programs listed in the Communicate! program bank.
  • Categorized Yearly Index of Tikkun Leil Shavuot Programs
  • Honoring Our Past, Envisioning Our Future: Reform Judaism in the 21st Century
    This Tikkun focuses on the meaning and challenge of being a Reform Jew at the beginning of the 21st century. It has an accompanying video, L'dor Vador: Continuity and Change.
  • The Voice Still Speaks
    In this program, which includes a companion video, five leading Jewish scholars discuss revelation from a traditional and personal perspective.
  • Megillat Ruth: Journeying Toward the Sacred
    This program is a combination video and study booklet. Its biblical story, so ancient and yet so modern, is a timeless message of the risks one takes on the journey from loss and emptiness to renewal and rebirth.
  • Together at Sinai
    With this study guide you and your community can explore a wide variety of themes related to the holiday of Shavuot. The workshops include preparing a Shavuot seder, studying the theme of revelation through a feminist lens, the Book of Ruth through a social justice lens, or the role of commandments in liberal Judaism.
  • Aseret Hadibrot - Illuminating the Ten Commandments
    Explore the meaning of the Ten Commandments through the mitzvah of study.
  • Journeying Toward Sinai
    Ten workshops that enable you and your congregation to explore the meaning of Shavuot through the mitzvah of study. Two workshops can be used as preparatory sessions during the Omer period, which leads up to the holiday of Shavuot. The eight workshops for Tikkun Leil Shavuot itself vary in content and mode. These separate components allow each congregation to create an evening of study appropriate for its members.
  • Standing Together: A Social Justice Guide for Shavuot
    This guide focuses on four issues connected with Shavuot: economic justice, the environment, world Jewry and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues and advocacy. Each section begins with an explanation about the connection between the social justice theme and Shavuot and the Omer. After the general introduction, families, social action chairs, confirmation classes, youth group leaders and other synagogue groups will find programs, projects and study topics that connect Shavuot and the Omer with these themes.

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