What is Shavuot?
What is ShavuotLIVE?
Shavuot is a Jewish holiday that many have never observed before. But we think it's a great one! One of its traditions has been staying up all night, learning in community with others. But we're greedy. We don’t just want all-night...we want all-night AND all-day! So we offer an event called ShavuotLIVE, which creates a marathon of 24 straight hours of learning, for FREE, available anywhere on the planet with internet access. Over the course of its first six years, ShavuotLIVE has reached thousands of participants, all around the world!
We’ve invited an incredible slate of presenters, who will collectively teach for 24 straight hours, beginning at 6 pm Eastern on Friday, May 22nd and concluding at 6 pm Eastern on Saturday, May 23rd.
You can come for just 1 session, go to 3 or 4, or shoot for 24 in a row! Whatever works for you, we want your Shavuot to be special, and full of learning!
ALL SESSIONS of ShavuotLIVE 2026 available via the player below! To go to the next session, click the⏭️button in the top left.
Check out our best quotes of the ShavuotLIVE 2026 chat (The Quote-Board) here!
ShavuotLIVE 2026: Schedule
Friday, May 22nd
TIMES LISTED ARE US (EASTERN) TIME ZONES
6:00 PM · Judaism Unbound (Lex Rofeberg) · ShavuotLIVE Kickoff + The Torah of Wordplay
7:00 PM · Alicia Jo Rabins · Which Came First, the Torah or the World?
8:00 PM · Shabbat Unbound · May 2026: The Shalom Rav Edition
9:00 PM · Arielle Stein · Yiddish Erotic Poetry (Written by Women)
10:00 PM · Abby Stein · Kabbalah 101: From Medieval to Contemporary
11:00 PM · Jon Argaman · Do We Still Need Sermons?
Saturday, May 23rd
12:00 AM (Midnight) · Mazel M · GODHOLE THEORY: A Kabbalistic, Quantum, Classroom Cosmology
1:00 AM · Ketzirah Lesser · Agrat: Jewish Demon-Queen
2:00 AM · Chava Shapiro · Pikuach Nefesh (Saving a Life) and the Moral Work of Jewish Law
3:00 AM · Bryan Mann · Esau The Vampire?!?
4:00 AM· Annie Prusky · Polyglot Politics: Language Policy in Israel-Palestine
5:00 AM · Katie Kaestner · Convivencia and Its Afterlife: Jews, Conversos, and Catholics in Medieval Castilla
6:00 AM · BYO-Torah · An Open-Mic but with Torah Teaching
Saturday, May 23rd (continued)
TIMES LISTED ARE US (EASTERN) TIME ZONES
7:00 AM · Naomi Bennet · What Happens in Vegas...? The Halakhah of Rolling Dice and Counting Cards
8:00 AM · Brian Chenowith · Claiming Your Place at the Mountain: Making Judaism Your Own
9:00 AM · Yoshi Silverstein · Spinal Tap: The Ladder of Earth and Heaven Within the Body
10:00 AM · Shaul Magid · Sinai and the State Against Our Will: Rav Manitou’s Description of the Problems of Our Time
11:00 AM · Junetember Jonez · The Horror of Holiness: Human Encounters with the Divine
12:00 PM · Dan Libenson · Winning Every Argument by Losing: The Way of Hillel the Elder
1:00 PM · Mike Wirth · A Future Ancestors’ Guide to the Torah Galaxy
2:00 PM · Eva Mroczek · The Tablets Have Always Been Broken: From Moses to Modern Midrash
3:00 PM · Conversion Affirmation Ceremony
4:00 PM · Rena Yehuda Newman· Counting...Beyond the Omer — What Happens after Shavuot?
5:00 PM · Closing Celebration/Siyum
Start-Time: Friday, May 22nd, 6 pm ET/3 pm PT/11 pm GMT
Conclusion: Saturday, May 23rd, 6 pm ET/3 pm PT/11 pm GMT
We rely on your support to keep creating Shavuot gatherings like this in the future. Thank you for your donation!
