Community Lunch and Learn: Getting Ready for Shavuot, To Be Held May 22, May 30 at OU Headquarters

04 May 2006

Orthodox Union
11 Broadway, 14th Floor
Monday, May 22 and Tuesday, May 30 at 12:45 p.m.

As the holiday of Shavuot approaches, the Orthodox Union will present another in its Community Lunch and Learn series: Getting Ready for Shavuot, two weekly sessions which will take place Monday, May 22, and Tuesday, May 30.

Lunch and Learn is a program of the OU’s Department of Community Services and will be held at OU headquarters, 11 Broadway, 14th floor.

The sessions will consist of lunch, a shiur (lecture), and the Mincha service.

“The holiday of Shavuot, which is focused on the receiving of the Torah, is intensely spiritual and features all-night Torah study as a major componet of its observance,” declared Rabbi Robert Shur, program coordinator. “The Getting Ready for Shavuot series will provide a preliminary learning experience to prepare participants for the coming Festival.”

The sessions are as follows:
* Monday, May 22, 12:45 p.m. – Understanding Kabalat HaTorah: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, OU Executive Vice President.
* Tuesday, May 30, 12:45 p.m. – Birchot HaTorah: Rabbi Zvi Sobolosky, Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva University.

Admission, which includes lunch, is $10 per session.

Prior reservations are required. Contact Rabbi Shur at 212-613-8329, or roberts@ou.org.