TRAVELING TIKKUN L’EIL SHAVUOT 
Along the California Street corridor and beyond

Saturday, June 11
8:30 pm–until dawn June 12

Enjoy an evening—or a real all-nighter—with San Francisco rabbis and teachers as we walk along California Street from Sherith Israel to Beth Sholom, with stops at JCCSF, Congregation Emanu-El and—new this year—the Toy Boat on Clement Street. Our forbears, the rabbis of old, used to study all night to commemorate the giving of the Torah at Sinai. We can emulate them in San Francisco style during our Traveling Tikkun L’eil Shavuot, with this year’s theme of Sensual Torah.

Schedule:

8:30–9:30 pm: Savor a spicy Havdalah and more at Congregation Sherith Israel with Cantor Marsha Atty from Congregation Emanu-El.

10 pm: Enjoy savory learning at JCCSF with Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan, senior educator at Lehrhaus Judaica, Rabbi Batshir Torchio, senior educator at JCCSF, and David Green, director of the Taube Koret Center for Jewish Peoplehood at JCCSF. 

11:30 pm–12:30 am: Celebrate the vision of beholding Torah at Emanu-El. We’ll use illustrations from Archie Rand’s acclaimed series of paintings, The 613, referring to the 613 mitzvot or commandments, to learn with rabbis Batshir Torchio, Aubrey Glazer of Beth Sholom, Peretz Wolf-Prusan, and Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller of Sherith Israel, plus CSI education director Nancy Sheftel Gomes.

12:30 am: Explore the sweet Kabbalah of ice cream at the Toy Boat on Clement Street with Rabbi Sholmo Zarchi from Chevrah Thilim.

2–6 am: Study until dawn with Rabbi Aubrey Glazer at Beth Sholom.