Shavuot: From Sinai to Us

This Lomdim Academy course explores the inner logic and lived experience of Rosh Hashanah and the Days of Awe. Through Torah, prayer, minhag, symbolism, and human psychology, the course examines judgment, teshuva, communal ritual, sound, silence, time, and memory. Students learn not only what Jews do on these days, but why: how shared prayer, singing, symbols, and stories shape moral clarity, responsibility, and hope, and how Jewish ritual helps individuals and communities face life honestly and renew themselves together.

Curriculum

7 Chapters · 26 Lessons

1
Introduction
1. (Included in full purchase)
  The Nature of Yom Kippur
2. (Included in full purchase)
  Greetings and Customs
3. (Included in full purchase)
  Understanding Yom Kippur: Questions and Answers
4. (Included in full purchase)
  Introduction Quiz
2
From the Temple to the Synagogue
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  From Sacrifice to Prayer
2. (Included in full purchase)
  Understanding the Confession Prayers
3. (Included in full purchase)
  The Necessity of Verbal Confession
4. (Included in full purchase)
  The Structure of the Confessions: From Aleph to Tav
5. (Included in full purchase)
  The Five Prayer Services: The Rhythm of the Day
6. (Included in full purchase)
  Neila: The Closing
7. (Included in full purchase)
  After the Shofar: The Transition
3
Mitzvot & Minhagim
1. (Included in full purchase)
  White
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  More on the Shofar
3. (Included in full purchase)
  The Yom Kippur Experience: A Day Like No Other
4. (Included in full purchase)
  The Kittel
4
Teshuva
1. (Included in full purchase)
  Teshuva
2. (Included in full purchase)
  The Anatomy of Teshuva
3. (Included in full purchase)
  The Anatomy of an Apology
4. (Included in full purchase)
  Theological and Philosophical Dimensions
5. (Included in full purchase)
  Between Person and Person, Between Person and God
5
Prohibition on leather shoes
1. (Included in full purchase)
  Is it permitted to wear crocs?
6
Tfilot
1. (Included in full purchase)
  Jonah
2. (Included in full purchase)
  Kol Nidre
3. (Included in full purchase)
  Kol Nidrei and the Teshuva of Yom Kippur
7
Fasting
1. (Included in full purchase)
  Why do we fast?
2. (Included in full purchase)
  The Laws of Fasting on Yom Kippur

Rosh Hashanah

Curriculum

Introduction

From the Temple to the Synagogue

Mitzvot & Minhagim

Teshuva

Prohibition on leather shoes

Tfilot

Fasting