Our celebration of Shavuot will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 8th. On Shavuot we recall the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and the bringing of the offering of first fruits to the Temple in Jerusalem. During our service we will completely unroll a Torah scroll. The leaders of the congregation will hold the scroll, encircling us in Torah. Young people who have become B’nai Mitzvah since last Shavuot will read from the Torah.

While we can no longer actually bring first fruits to the Temple, we do recall that act by bringing flowers to our sanctuary to decorate our Ark. We ask that you bring flowers to the Shavuot service to add to the beauty of the sanctuary. After the service we will join for Shavuot refreshments of blintzes, sweets and fruit in the Stoller-Soreff Social Hall. 

Rabbi Cosnowsky will lead a study group, "Lusting for Torah!" Come and study some passages from Song of Songs and The Book of Ruth and study the connection of Passover to Shavuot.  We will understand why we count the omer between Passover and Shavuot and learn about the nature of relationships between us and God and between one another.