Until the break of dawn. The Tikkun Leil Shavuot is an experience like none other — an all-night Jewish learning and arts session to keep us awake for the reception of Torah at morning’s light for the festival of Shavuot.

Stay awake with your community as we indulge in Japanese ice cream and cheesecake, enjoy art and music, and dive into deep learning about dreams, nightmares and self-actualization until the break of dawn, when we receive Torah on the roof! Bring your own flowers to decorate the synagogue.

The Tikkun begins on Thursday, May 21st 7:00 pm at Der Nister, and is cosponsored by Temple Beth Israel. Register here.

SCHEDULE

7 PM Decorate the Shul with your Flowers — You bring the flowers, we'll have the vases — a classic Shavuot tradition

8 PM Rabbi Ye'ela Rosenfeld walks us through us Yosef Brenner's existentialist thought from his early 20th century journal HaMeorer (The Awakener)

9 PM Rabbi Henry Hollander explores Talmud Berachot's view of dreams

10 PM Cantor Kerith Spencer-Shapiro teaches us and leads us in meditation

11 PM Malke Morrell shows us the connections between Sigmund Freud and Der Nister

12 PM Rabbi Zach Golden, classical guitarist Michel Van Loh and Middle Eastern percussion expert Jamie Papish perform Shavuot piyyutim from around the world

1 AM Sasha Troyka goes through the ethical teachings of Avot de Rebbe Natan

2 AM Rabbis Hollander and Rosenfeld keep us awake, introducing us to the history of the Jewish coffee and tea trade, while offering up cups

3 - 6 AM Rabbis Hollander and Rosenfeld dig deeper into their teachings

6 AM Services on the Roof: Rabbi Golden leads us in Shacharit and reads the Ten Commandments. Rabbi Alex Weisz recites the Haftarah of Ezekiel. Watch the sun rise!