ANNUAL TIKKUN LEYL SHAVU’OT

3 - 5 JUNE 2014

 PSALMS OF DAVID: SEARCHING FOR GOD, JERUSALEM AND TORAH

 Tuesday, June 3

Minhah-Ma'ariv                                                                               8:30 p.m.

Candle lighting:                                                                                8:35 p.m.

Dairy Supper                                                                                     9:30 p.m.

Featured Scholar:                             Rabbi Benjamin Segal     

Keynote Presentation:                     David, Searching for God    10:00 p.m.

Study Seminars

11:00 p.m.        Session 1         (a)       Rabbi Benjamin Segal     

                                                            David’s Jerusalem

                                                (b)       Rabbi Baruch Frydman-Kohl    

                                                            Revelation and Response: Sinai in Psalms

11:45 p.m.        Coffee/tea/cheesecake break

Midnight Torah Reading                 Malli Zworth

(outside)                                            Under the Moon the Heavens Open

12:15 a.m.        Session 2        (a)       Rabbi Professor Michael Brown

                                                            A Psalm of Triumph and a Poem of Despair

                                                (b)       Dr. Lucia Pizarro Wehlen, Tanenbaum Fellow

1:00 a.m.         Coffee/tea/cheesecake break

1:15 a.m.          Session 3        (a)       Rabbi Adam Cutler

                                                      Reaching Up From the Depths: Psalms and Spirituality

                                                 (b)       Rabbi Shalom Schachter

                                                          Psalms: Our Serenades to the Schechina (the Divine)

 2:00 a.m.        Conclusion

Tikkun Leyl Shavuot is co-sponsored by Congregation Beth Haminyan together with
The Joel David Brody Memorial Lecture & The Harry Lewis Memorial Lecture