Light Dairy Dinner & Tikkun

May 25, 2004

To mark the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and to honor the custom of Tikkun Leil Shavuot or staying up the entire night (leil) of Shavuot and studying with the community in order to re-experience standing at Sinai, Temple Jeremiah hosted a dairy dinner and study.

Our theme revolved around "The Power of Memory" in keeping with the fact that Shavuot is also known as Zan Matan Torah, the Time of the Giving of the Torah. Our celebration is a time of remembering this great event and allowing the memory to guide our actions in the present. We explored six verses from the Torah calling upon us to remember six major events in the life of our people, their significance for the 21st Century Reform Jew, the difference between remembering and not forgetting and the critical role that our memory plays in celebrating the Festival of Shavuot.