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Table of Contents
Editor’s Forward……………………..………………………………………. 1
By Kyle Savitch
Revelation: Then and Now
Leaning into Discomfort: A Lesson from the Shavuot Story….…………….. 2
By Adina Schwartz
Revelation in Each Step………………………………………………....…… 4
By Erica Frankel
Meeting G-d alone on the Mountain……………………………………....…. 6
By Rabbi Yudi Shmotkin
Between Sinai and Eretz Yisrael: A Wedding in Process…....……………… 9
By Chelsea Garbell
Zachor: The Ways We Remember………………………………..………….. 11
By Leah Franklin
Torah Lishma: For the Sake of Heaven
The Responsibility of Freedom……………...………………………………. 13
By Dimitry Ekshtut
Pirkei Avot: Building a Community…………………………………..…...… 15
By Batya Weiss
In the Beginning………...……………………………………………………. 16
By Ilana Ascher
You Matter and Make a Difference………………………………………...... 18
By Rhonda Taylor
Experiencing Shavuot
The Holiday of Seven Weeks of Seven…………………………………...…. 20
By Isaiah Rothstein
The Torah of Grace………………………………………………………..…. 22
By Rabbi Mike Moskowitz and Rabbi Wendy Amsellem
How Fortunate!................................................................................................. 24
By Shimon Yaakov Laxer
Longing for Sefarad in the Velada, The ‘Watch’ of Shavuot………………... 25
By Rabbi Mira Rivera
Tikkun Leil 2020: Studying in Solitude...…………………………………… 28
By Aaron Portman
