Dear fellow Shluchim,

 

As your partner in Mivtza Torah, we are pleased to announce multiple new educational offerings and a wide array of content related to Shavuos.

 

Highlights include: A new customizable DIY Shavuos booklet to deliver to homes of your balebatim; an interactive trivia game to engage your community; a fascinating new lesson on the Jewish response to pandemics throughout history, and several additional lessons and programs, carefully designed to engage an online audience, as outlined below.

 

Wishing you, your families, and your communities the best during these challenging times, and kabolas haTorah besimcha ubepnimiyus,

 

The JLI Team

Your partners in Mivtza Torah

Personalized, customizable Shavuos DIY Guide

The comprehensive and beautifully designed booklet, titled DIY Sinai: This Time it’s Personal–Celebrating Shavuot on Your Own, was designed to send to your community members before Shavuos. Created by JLI with input from several shluchim, it will empower them to relive Matan Torah on their own– and to make it personal. With practical direction for traditions and customs, late-night learning insights, stories, Shavuos recipes, a children’s chapter by CKids, and a special study guide for the Aseres Hadibros, it’s sure to enrich anyone’s Shavuos.

 

Please stay tuned for more information and details on how to order.

 

Price: To be determined shortly based on printing costs.

What Goes Around: Perspectives on Pandemics in Jewish History

This fascinating lesson offers a sweeping survey of major plagues and epidemics in Jewish history, from biblical, through Talmudic, to modern times, with a view to how our people have reacted to them. Assembling advice, antidotes, and anecdata relating to the practical, Halachic, and spiritual aspects of the plague, it considers how Jewish life has been historically disrupted by epidemics – and ultimately recovered from, and adapted to it.

 

Author: Rabbi Mendel Silberstein, Mamaroneck, NY

 

Package includes:

• A Teacher's Manual
• PowerPoint
• Marketing material (social media square, Facebook event banner, email header, and Canva link) 

 

Price: $19.99

Trivia Game!

Are you looking for more ways to engage with your community from a distance? In addition to our formal classes, JLI is pleased to offer four family-friendly Trivia games optimized for the Kahoot! Platform, with four weekly installments, featuring 30 questions each. Now more than ever, informal activities and online meetings can bring people together, ease loneliness and anxiety, and provide emotional and psychological support. So go ahead, click on the link below for a few lighthearted evenings of entertainment, while introducing new concepts and starting conversations about Yiddishkeit! 

 

Package includes:

• A link to the Kahoot game
• Customizable marketing images
• Detailed instructions on preparing for and running the program
   

Our thanks to Chabad of Redondo Beach, CA for their help in initiating and assistance in developing this program. 

 

Price: FREE

Shavuos – Sparks of Wisdom Booklets [Print Edition]

JLI produced a NEW Sparks of Wisdom on the Aseres Hadibros, a perfect item to include in a pre-Shavuos package to your community members. This updated, neatly designed booklet comprises a series of brief quotes expressing foundational ideas for each of the Aseres Hadibros that will provoke engaging discussion and dialogue.

 

Price: $1.25 per full color booklet.

Shavuos – Sparks of Wisdom PowerPoint

In a Zoom or Hangouts meeting, you can display these ten beautifully designed slides in turn, and have a participant read a quoted text, before taking the first opportunity to share his or her thoughts on a follow-up question. Then allow some of the other participants to share their thoughts on the same question before continuing to the next Spark of Wisdom.

 

Price: $9.99

Days to Celebrate - 2 Shavuos Lessons

Essence to Essence: The Sinai Connection
This intriguing lesson demonstrates that Hashem did not merely give us the Torah at Sinai; He gave us Himself. We did not give Hashem our commitment at Sinai; we gave Him ourselves. This powerful point casts a new light on just what it is we celebrate on Shavuos: At Sinai, G-d was thrilled to see that He matters to us, and we to learn that we matter to Him.

 

Shavuot DIY class: How Do You Do Shavuot at Home
No matter how quickly society reopens, we are unlikely to enjoy large gatherings this Shavuot, and will instead find ourselves at home for the holiday. But that doesn’t mean we have to give up on any of Shavuot’s delightful traditions, like adorning the home with flowers, enjoying dairy treats, and all-night Torah study, or the somber customs of remembering our loved ones with the Yizkor. By presenting and explaining these traditions, both those unique to Shavuot and others common to all Jewish holiday, this class empowers you to do it yourself.

These classes are the remaining 2 lessons from the popular Days to Celebrate course and are now available for shluchim who have not purchased the full course. 

 

Each lesson includes:

• A Teacher's Manual
  
• Student handouts
  
• Marketing material (social media square, Facebook event banner, email header, and Canva link)

Price: 39.99 for both lessons

JLI Facebook Live

Over the past eight weeks, JLI has made an increased effort to provide timely learning and inspiration over our Facebook page. Over TEN LIVE classes are available each week for you to advertise in advance, and share on your own Facebook page. These classes, taught by world class speakers, have reached large audiences, as ever-more people spend much more time with social media.

 

Some upcoming classes in honor of Shavuos include "The Inner Journey: From Passover to Shavuot'' by Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel, "Why Was the Torah Given to Women First?"  by Mrs. Nechama Harlig, "The Giving of the Torah: A 3 Part Series" by Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, and more in the coming weeks.

 

Look out for our weekly schedule, emailed each Motzei Shabbos.

More from JLI on Shavuos

• Torah Studies Shavuos Lesson - Revival of Ruth How to Make Judaism Real

   

• Machon Shmuel – Shavuos Collection!

   

• TorahCafe – Shavuos Videos TorahCafe.com/Shavuot

   

• The Man and His Movement. A Galician story of the man who changed the face of world Jewry. Sample some tantalizing teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, and study the history of the revolution he sparked.

   

• A Reason to Celebrate – Engraved in Your Heart: finding personal meaning in the Ten Commandments. A special Shavuos lesson from the Rosh Chodesh Society. Includes a teacher's manual and student book.

   

• A special Shavuos lesson from the JLI Course Paradigm Shift

   

• A special Shavuos lesson from the JLI Course Curious Tales of the Talmud

   

• Iyun: Sefiras Haomer – Shavuos - The Foundation of the Mitzvah of Counting the Omer

   

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