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Shavuot 2026
This Shavuot, Beth Tfiloh is honored to welcome scholars-in-residence Rabbi Ysoscher Katz, Chair of the Talmud Department at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and Dr. Sharon Flatto, Professor of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College and the Deputy Director of its Graduate Program. Their scholarship and insights will bring added meaning to our holiday experience. We hope you can join us!
SCHEDULE
Thursday, May 21
Shavuot: An Evening of Learning and Dinner
7:20pm: Class with Rabbi Ysoscher Katz: “From Darkness to Light: The Birth and Rebirth of Shabbat and Yom Tov Candles”
8:05pm: Mincha (Epstein Chapel)
8:15pm: Class with Rabbi Ysoscher Katz: “Satmar and Lubavitch: Enemies, a Love Story”
9pm: Maariv (Epstein Chapel)
9:30pm: Dairy Dinner (registration required) – Hurwitz Hall
10:30pm: Class with Dr. Sharon Flatto: “Beyond Cheesecake and Coffee: Why Do We Stay Up All Night?: The Radical Transformation of Tikkun Leil Shavuot”
11:30pm: All night learning with Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Yoggev (Ivdu Program Center) – snacks and hot food will be served throughout the night. Join the WhatsApp All-Night Learning group for updates.
8:05pm: Mincha (Epstein Chapel)
8:15pm: Class with Rabbi Ysoscher Katz: “Satmar and Lubavitch: Enemies, a Love Story”
9pm: Maariv (Epstein Chapel)
9:30pm: Dairy Dinner (registration required) – Hurwitz Hall
10:30pm: Class with Dr. Sharon Flatto: “Beyond Cheesecake and Coffee: Why Do We Stay Up All Night?: The Radical Transformation of Tikkun Leil Shavuot”
11:30pm: All night learning with Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Yoggev (Ivdu Program Center) – snacks and hot food will be served throughout the night. Join the WhatsApp All-Night Learning group for updates.
Register for dinner HERE ($18 per person).
No registration required for the classes.
Friday, May 22
9am: Morning services (Dahan Sanctuary)
Sermon with Rabbi Ysoscher Katz: "Pesach Isn’t Just Pesach, Shavuot Isn’t Just Shavuot” (Dahan Sanctuary)
Kiddush Class with Rabbi Ysoscher Katz: "The Chareidi Draft: A Crisis of Conscience—Torah, State, and Shared Sacrifice” (Ivdu Program Center)
6:45pm: Mincha/Maariv (Epstein Chapel)
8:02pm: Candle lighting (earliest lighting at 6:50pm)
Saturday, May 23
9am: Morning services (Dahan Sanctuary)
10:15am: Yizkor (Dahan Sanctuary)
Sermon with Rabbi Ysoscher Katz: "Yizkor: To Remember and to Be Remembered" (Dahan Sanctuary)
Kiddush Class with Dr. Sharon Flatto: “The Many Faces of Moshe: Which Face Do We Believe In?” (Ivdu Program Center)
5pm: Young Family Shavuot Social
Join us on the lower school playground for snacks and a great time meeting up with other young families. No registration needed. In case of inclement weather, we will meet in the Tuvin Hall.
5:50pm: Daf Yomi (Weiner Board Room)
6:30pm: Pre-Mincha Class with Dr. Sharon Flatto: “What are Provocative Pictures doing in Medieval Shavuot Machzorim?”
7:30pm: Mincha followed by the reading of Megilat Rut (Epstein Chapel)
Seudah Shlishit: Please join us for a light third meal following the reading of Megilat Rut (Ivdu Program Center)
8:55pm: Maariv (Epstein Chapel)
9:02 pm: Shabbat & Yom Tov ends
Scholars-in-Residence bios:
| Rabbi Ysoscher Katz is Chair of the Talmud Department at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. He studied at the Satmar, Brisk, and Beit Yosef Navaradok yeshivot, received semikha shortly after high school, and has taught Talmud and halakhah at a wide array of institutions. He has directed the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies, composed responsa on vital contemporary halakhic issues, and writes extensively on matters pertaining to Jewish society. |  |
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Dr. Sharon Flatto is a Professor of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College and the Deputy Director of its Graduate Program. Specializing in early modern Jewish history and Kabbalah, Professor Flatto has taught at a broad range of educational institutions: Yale, Queens College, Brown, and numerous adult education programs. She is the author of The Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Prague: Ezekiel Landau (the ‘Noda Biyehudah’) and his Contemporaries, and various scholarly articles. |
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