041: A little Torah for Shavuot: Don’t be a mask-hole. Shavuot round-up, Converts, & Ruth

A little torah (study) for Shavuot follows; Shavuot is the Jewish holiday that once was a harvest festival and now is an all-night, dairy-binging, torah-studying celebration of Sinai, learning, and Jewish converts. That’s me! And this will complete a full year’s cycle of Jewish holidays for me. Conversion date: TBD!

Torah as promised. Ahem, I may have mentioned this before. (And again)

Pikuach nefesh/preserving & protecting life is such a core part of Judaism that you can violate just about every mitzvah if life is at stake. So it’s basically a no-brainer. The Constitution is about rights, but Judaism is about obligations—to each other’s safety most of all. https://t.co/YHyAWnnfHE

— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) May 27, 2020

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Join my community Nefesh for all-night fun starting at 7! (Thursday May 28 Zoom registration)

I’ve been hard at work for Nefesh creating posts and art such as (drum roll)… and there are 10 slides here.

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Our exciting lineup for tomorrow night: Shavuot All Night Long! Join us 7pm onwards for dance, study, song, sharing, and baking. Swipe for full lineup; link in bio. After we wrap at midnight we'll join @rebootjewish @jewishemergentnetwork for DAWN: full lineup at their page, featuring Nefesh (1:20am) musical offering and Nefesh kin @jillsoloway (5am). ⛰📖🎵

A post shared by nefesh (@nefesh) on May 27, 2020 at 2:15pm PDT

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Reads:

• Jewish converts: the Book of Ruth is a good story to know. Ruth, the first convert.
• How Shavuot is the perfect example of Reform Jewish thinking
• Shavuot 101 at My Jewish Learning