NIGHT/LIGHT: A Tikkun Leil Shavout!

Come celebrate Shavuot, the Jewish holiday of revelation, with the mystical tradition of Tikun Leil Shavuot, an ancient ritual in which we stay up late into the night to seek out the Divine voice. 

Our evening starts with a provocative immersive experience of ritual theater designed and led by Rabbi Jericho Vincent, spiritual leader of Temple of the Stranger in New York. You can then choose your own adventure — mystical study sessions led by Rabbi Vincent, Chochmat HaLev’s Spiritual Leader Zvika Krieger, and Jewish mysticism scholar Professor Sam Shonkoff, as well as music, dance, art, and embodiment experiences led by artists from LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture.

The Zohar recounts that the masculine and feminine faces of the Divine unite on Shavuot — and so we must stay up late into the night to “array the jewels of the Bride, so tomorrow she will appear before the King suitably adorned and bedazzled.” The Jewish mystics teach that we adorn the Bride by weaving creative interpretations of traditional sacred texts, stringing them into beautiful new garlands of modern meaning.