Shavuot HerTorah Together
With Rabbanit Aliza Sperling, Rabbanit Dalia Davis, Naama Sadan, and you!
Shavuot celebrates the Revelation at Mount Sinai -- the moment we received the Torah as a people.
It is said that "all of us were there" to witness this formative experience, and each one of us received a piece of Torah unique to us.
This year, in the week leading up to Shavuot, we want to share Torah with each other. We all have something unique to share and to learn. Join us on WhatsApp.
Each day this week, we will hear from one of our wonderful teachers: Rabbanit Aliza Sperling, Rabbanit Dalia Davis, Naama Sadan.
They will share some of their Shavuot Torah with us, and then invite us to respond with our own Torah — because each one of us has something unique to share!
Join us in making this Shavuot celebration overflow with the Torah that lives among us.
Take a moment to watch this welcome video from Rabbanit Aliza Sperling explaining what to expect this week and an opening question for us all!
This gathering honors the memory of two special members of our SVIVAH community.
Rabbanit Miriam Gonczarska-Shapiro z”l and Bayla Jacobson z”l shared their beautiful presences with our community often. They embodied two of the central themes of Shavuot: Torah and friendship.
Rabbanit Miriam Gonczarska-Shapiro z”l was a wonderful teacher of ours. She shared her first hand experience with us as an immigrant to the United States in reflecting on the Lech Lecha story in the book of Genesis. Rabbanit Gonczarska-Shapiro loved to share Torah with others — and was incredibly generous in sharing her personal Torah with us. Hear her teaching below.
Bayla Jacobson z”l joined our gatherings time and time again. She shared her unique perspectives as someone deeply involved and committed to her home community in Los Angeles. Bayla was always involved in a project designed to support and ease the lives of those in her community — often focused on women. As a student of medicine herself, Bayla was deeply attuned and sensitive to the ways we all need support and healing. One of Bayla’s greatest assets — in addition to her wise Torah — was her dedicated friendship. She valued connection and relationships tremendously and to be her friend was an absolute gift.
Reflections on Chapter 1 of the Book of Ruth from Rabbanit Dalia Davis.
Watch here and then Share your reflections with us in the WhatsApp!
Let’s be together.
Join us Sunday, May 17th - Thursday, May 21st
Please invite someone you think might want to be with us, too.
This gathering welcomes women* 12+ and learners of all backgrounds.
SVIVAH is dependent on the generosity of those who choose to invest in a powerful community of women. As always, cost should never be a barrier to anything SVIVAH, but if you can, please help us show respect to our speakers/facilitators for their time and expertise.
If you would like to sponsor this gathering in honor or in memory of someone special, email us here.
Questions about ZOOM or about this gathering? Email connect@svivah.org
*SVIVAH defines "Jewish woman" as anyone wishing to be included in a circle of Jewish women. If you want to be here, we want you to be here.
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