Shavuot Hike and Torah @ Spooner Lake

TJC prevents Shavuot Hike and Torah at Spooner Lake

Shavuot @ Spooner 2024:  A Modern Pilgrimage

As we embrace Shavuot this year, we are experiencing this pilgrimage festival in a way special to our Mountain Judaism here in our Tahoe Jewish Community.  We’ll join together from around our region to turn our eyes to the mountains.  Psalms 121 teaches:  I lift my eyes to the mountains; so as we collectively lift our eyes, we’ll hear words of Torah chanted from one of our backpacking Torahs in the setting of our Gem of Creation – Tahoe, we’ll walk through the forest of Spooner Lake State Park, we’ll learn Torah together, and we’ll enjoy a dairy potluck.  A pilgrimage occurs when one wanders in the wilderness.  However, this wandering has a purpose, a spiritual destination.  As you prepare to join us, consider how you can engage with the idea of pilgrimage.  What are we communally journeying towards?  What are we leaving behind?  What will we experience on this year’s Shavuot pilgrimage?

Timeline:

10am – Meet at Visitors’ Center & Amphitheater

Gather, Welcome words, & Teaching

11:45 am*: Torah reading and Pot luck to follow

(*might be later, but will not be before this time)