SHAVUOT

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="039f0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B>SHAVUOT</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="038f2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="lecture_teaching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults"><U><B>Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teenager Education Topics "><U><B>Teenager Education Topics</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FESTIVALS"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Festivals</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SLICHOT"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">S'lichot</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CHANUKAH"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Chanukah</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PURIM"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Purim</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="YOM haSHOAH and KRISTALLNACHT"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Yom haShoah</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact JEWISH VOICES"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Contact JEWISH VOICES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Voices 200 Years of Jewish Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03bf0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Shavuot: the Jewish Poet</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> as Witness</B></I></div> <bR> <div>      What have our writers imagined about the fundamental experience at Sinai---an experience invisible and inaudible to almost all the Hebrews at the mountain’s base?  How have they made us present at Sinai in the mutual exchange of the Law, both given and received?  What aspects of our witnessing have they emphasized?</div> <bR> <div>      In the contexts of modern history, Sinai has represented a  moment of decision or choice that can occur anytime.  But the poets have  posed some new questions: <I><B>who</B></I> can stand at Sinai? <I><B>where</B></I> is Sinai? <I><B>for what</B></I> does one stand, as witness, at Sinai?  The texts return us to core issues of covenant.</div> <bR> <div>      Writings from <I><B>Rebekah Hyneman, Emma Lazarus, Charles Reznikoff, Samuel Roth, Abraham Moses Klein, Babette Deutsch, Arthur Jacobs</B></I>, others. </div> <bR> <div> <B>         </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>