Judaism Unbound Episode 377: Shavuot in the Cloud - Dan and Lex
ShavuotLIVE, the biggest and best(est) event on the Judaism Unbound calendar, is approaching in just a few weeks (May 26th/27th)! It's a 24-hours-straight festival of digital Jewish learning, and it's entering its fourth year. Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg check in about what Shavuot is (and could be) in 2023, and they also explore what ShavuotLIVE helps to show about the state of digital Judaism today.
[1] Learn more about ShavuotLIVE: our 24-hour festival of Jewish learning, by heading to JudaismUnbound.com/shavuot2023!
[2] It’s your last chance to sign up for our next block of mini-courses in the UnYeshiva! Register for any of these five amazing offerings, which begin in just a couple days (the week of May 8th) by clicking the links below:
“The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex” (Lila Corwin Berman)
“Torah as a State of Statelessness: Recovering Diasporist Halakhah” (Laynie Soloman)
“Judaism In-Bound: An Introduction to Judaism for Everyone” (Dan Libenson, Miriam Terlinchamp)
[3] For past bonus episodes of Judaism Unbound, exploring Shavuot from a wide variety of angles, see any of the following:
[4] Check out the text that is at the core of debates about when Shavuot should be celebrated (Leviticus 23 — verses 11 and 16 of the chapter are especially central) via this link.
[5] For a fuller telling of why Mezuzahs are often placed on a diagonal, see this piece from MyJewishLearning.
[6] Dan mentions Kodak, and digital photography, as a window into the challenges of institutional change/innovation. For an ELI Talk (Jewish Ted Talk) that Dan gave, based on that same set of historical developments, click here.
