hey y'all! I'm LilyFish, she/they, and I'm TIRED!!

Hi, it's Hadass, she/they, excited that today has finally arrived!!

Hi everyone! I'm Yonatan, he/him, and I'm excited! And a bit tired too!

Robin she/her Yes: excited/tired

Hi it's Mike, he/him, anxious about some big changes in my life.

Hi! I'm Lea (they/them) and so glad to be back

Hey, everybody! Benay here, she/her. SO excited to hang out with y'all tonight!

Sam (he/him) excited to dig in!

Hello!!! Kim she/her tired and excited

Hi, everyone! Here’s a link where you can view and download the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1S3L1kgD0wKM8G2E-KwSKYqTVYNgfN-utbb1-nSoVAR4/edit#slide=id.g133b89a5c93_0_1

Raina, she/her, so very tired, but glad to be here

hey everyone! Tom, he/him, excited and one glass of wine in

Rusty, he/they, feeling anxious but excited! Also heads up that I just sat down to eat supper, so will mostly be off-cam and off-mic

Leila Wice * she/her * HOT (I just had to put my laptop in the refrigerator!)

Greetings one and all! Channing here, he/they so chuffed to be here!

Hey there--Sara, she/they, tired but so psyched to be back in Svara space!

Bea Chun (she/her/hers) sooooo happy to be here

hey all, Will, they/them, hopping on the tired train

Siera (She/they) Feeling weirdly prepared and unready at the samet ime

so tired. but I found ice cream in my freezer, so LIFE IS GOOD

Nat, they/them, excited and a little scattered!

Ricky (he/him), excited!

Leah, she/they, excited to be back in a svara space

Hi, everyone! Here’s a link where you can view and download the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1S3L1kgD0wKM8G2E-KwSKYqTVYNgfN-utbb1-nSoVAR4/edit#slide=id.g133b89a5c93_0_1

they should be open to viewing now

rebecca (they/she) dreamy

Maddy Potempkin, QTC '17

Cyn Hoffman, so glad to be learning with you again!

Mike, and friendship!

Jaimie W ❤️

I brought in Yonatan, who's freaking awesome

Bringing love c:

shout-out to my first chevruta, Maria

Hadass, Winnipeg (and Smithfield Ave) representing!

bringing in the love of my chevruta Alisa!

So excited to learn with Malkah and in awe of the support she provides to me!!

creativity! Adina Allen!

the hermit thrush that sang to me each morning all summer long

maggie (they/them) so grateful for my forever chevruta shulamit <3

bringing in Michael, very chill

My high school havruta, Mindy and Nitzan and my current chavruta Jason I'm sooooo lucky to work with <3

Always wrapped up in my Chevrutah Leah's love and support.

I am so excited to be kicking off a "real" chavruta with my amazing study buddy Tyler! 💖

R’ Hayley Goldstein and R’Emily Barton— realness and vulnerability

Overwhelmed w/ joy to be learning w/ Will and Nat again

Dedicating tonight's learning to my chavruta here Ricky 🔥

Bringing showing regard for another person by taking responsibility for their learning

I'm so excited to be joining a Svara chevruta!

Nicki Green (last time I got to study through SVARA in person); humility and wonder

sharing an orange, a sweet check-in

Excited to be learning with LilyFish after a summer apart!

Bringing into the room my first chevruta, Eddie Harwitz, with whom I learned pretty much everything I know and feel about what chevruta is all about

Dedicating this class to my fabulous chevruta, Tom!

Learning with my dear chevrutah Ari Monts, who is working atm so can't be here, takes me on a joyful, affirming journey. Amazing shidduch, Svara!!!

Nothing more than Baruch HaShem because there really is nothing more than Baruch HaShem.

CP - excited to continue learning together in partnership and carry that relationship forward as our lives fill up and evolve.

R' Noah Westreich … and my life chevruta, Jhos 💗

Dedicating to meeting my new Svara chevruta Raina

Dedicating to my beautiful chevruta Leslie Batz

Aw, Channing, back at you :)

Learn more about our community norms! https://svara.org/community-norms/

Channing, love your kitty chavruta!

Ohmygoodness, look at this gorgeous yeshiva!!!

Meaning all of YOU! (not just the spotlighted folks!)

🧚🏻‍♀️💖

Thanks Hadass!

<3 what a amazing crew of humans. thanks for holding space y'all!

Stomp Stomp Chava! SO TRUE!

ahhhh what a yeshiva indeed!

Looking around the room...wow, THIS was the dream!!!!

^^^

Sorry, just having a little kvell-o-rama over here.

schedule (eastern time)8:00 - 8:10: welcome & intro8:10 - 8:25: what is chevruta?8:25 - 9:00: chevruta panel9:00-9:02: closing & what’s next9:02 - 9:30: open bet midrash

it is a love fest soooo

chet bet resh

https://www.lahavlearning.com/jastrow/

Glittering connection!!!

Page?

charmer

Charmer and associate, too, apparently

I didn't remember the "assist" part!

p. 421

love “fasten" here

I love the “to charm" or "fascinate"!

both, I believe 🙂

friend, comrade, associate

also "fellow" (fellow student etc)

Companionship!

Fasten, fascinate!?!?! OHMYGOODNESS, I never thought of that!

neighbour!

חבר = friend, ות = "ness", א = (aram).M.SG

Is it "of"?

Friendness. Love it.

the charm definition is from a kind of magic in Deuteronomy 18:11

benay: fascinate comes from "spell" as in witchcraft. Looks like a false cognate to “fasten” which comes from "fast" (as in "make fast”)

Aleph=past or present conjugation

In Hebrew, חברוּת is friendship or a group of friends

I'm wondering now…why do we vocalize it with a segol??

oh wow ‘neighbor’ feels especially intense if that root also gives us ‘Hebron’ (the occupied palestinian city!)

Benay, I'm guessing because the chet can't be vocalised with a shva.

Cool. Thanks, Lea!!

of children of the tribes of isreal

In breakout groups share:Names & Pronouns (if you’d like!)What’s coming up for you?What definitions of chevruta are standing out to you?

A framework for intimate connection with another human being, with the text and with the tradition (“chevruta” refers to both the partnership and the people in the partnership!)A spiritual technology for developing radical empathy and interdependence

An interactive, engaging, busy, and immersive process, with both chevrutas feeling totally present in the relationship and the learningA profoundly meditative and empowering experience which depends on rigorous and clear expectations of owning the text inside and out

Captions in the mainroom!

Best thing learned is that Oliva Devorah's kitty, Lois, can be the favorite of all of us tonight!!

Thank you Chava for “relational obligation”!

Now Olivia Devorah needs to pay the pet tax

<3 thank you both for learning with me tonight!

Learning is done in community, 10 Jews to pray, 2 Jews to learn -Lillyfish

Thank you so much, Gem!! Wish we had longer to talk about how chevruta experiences affect how we learn and teach in other parts of life!

Beautiful people, so very lovely to meet Hillel and Shira

Thanks Elisheva and Bea! We zoomed into the idea of spiritual technology. So liberating to think of it all that way. Take what works.

we noticed that nowhere in the inside or outside translations was there anything about two people and were wondering where that comes from?

Yes, support and the safety of taking chances together

Sara talked about how just one person is “chevruta” too, and then we talked about how it can be an indvivdual, but only in relation to other(s).

Great question, Sam!

Ohhh I thought it was weird that there was no announcement about the main room being for the captioning

+ what Sara said!!!

our small group thought most of the definitions were aspirational and we were nervous about idea of not being a "good" chevruta if it didn't reach a goal

Leila said something huge about the relationality of chevruta as being analogous in some way to the dialectical (co-creating) quality in human<—>divine relation

It's all good, Virginia.

"dialectical intersubjectivity” i my phrase for the day.

the obligation to one anothers learning is so huge for me. it's not just about an individuals "success," but we're measured by the success of our partners.

I enjoyed chatting and being present with S and T

Really interested to figure out what the connection is with "charmer," especially after hearing more about what it could be, in our breakout room-chavrutah!

I don't have a lot of experience, but I think working through the awkward stages is part of the process.

Wowww Tom and Leah, I learned so much in our time together! I love the idea that Tom shared, about chevrutah as the foundational relationship of the yeshiva. And Leah, I AM GOING TO WATCH YENTIL and read everything you wrote about it and its celebration of the spiritual possibilities of chevrutah.

Earnest Said something rally beautiful, They said " {Chevrutah is} the gift of taking something seriously with another person"

I hope people don't put too much pressure on themselves.

I was thinking about Rabbi Yohanan and Reish Lakish in their chavruta relationship, and even though it was a tragedy, appreciating that kind of endlessly passionate love of searching for truth

@Malkah: Apparently the origin is from "tying magic knots," and this sense is cognate to Akkadian “ubburru," to bind or ban.

Oh, I like that, Siera. Thank you for sharing it

(I just got an etymological dictionary and am having *way* too much fun with it)

@Yonatan that was my guess!! Thank you for that

for chet-bet-resh as charmer, see Deuteronomy 18:11 ~ and where Talmud sites it at Keritot 3b (after the panel of course)

I went to Svara camp in large part thanks to Sandy! 🙏

i love how poly chevruta love is. and how much compersion we hold when our chevruta finds another match in learning! <3

yes chava!

love that!

That resonates so much for me, too, Sarit!

Chava, I am feeling this! Yes!

💖

And then there is the amplification of NRE (New Relationship Energy)…

<3

SO yes!

that's really beautiful

pshhhh yes bronwen

created or remembered?

<3

ohhhhh I love that

Holy Torah, Batman! That is SO BAM!

amazing.

aww. 🙂

Amazing...

Brilliant all of you!

❤️✨

A lot of people feel really pressured by that, I think.

Baruch HaShem, Benay. Baruch HaShem you were given the tools you needed to get through. And B*H you invited your chavrutah to need you

^^

^^^

💖

crying

Yes.

Wow, I appreciate this. It's relatable.

Captioner Corvyn is on break - woo! Corvynif you see errors in the auto-transcription the word is probably Chevruta

Maybe Talmud was recorded the way it is so that we need a hevruta to access it

^^

Love that Ernest!

without the love hormones

I was just wondering how many of us have slept with our chevruta...

(I haven't)

woopsies ;P

i was just wondering how many times I've heard R' Benay say not to sleep with one's havruta

Becky! NO! I do NOT want to be washing my brain now thinking about that about others OMG! LOLOLOL

noa!

yes.

okay I'm on transcription corrections

smart -> SVARA

governor -> chevruta

average & covered -> chevruta

far in -> SVARA

transportation - > transformation

Bron when -> Bronwen

cover to/tup -> chevruta

But, Ron -> Bronwen

Tollman -> Talmud

this mantling -> dismantling

heiruta -> chevruta

(Sarit, I am now very curious about what you meant by their "apocalyptic" wisdom -- not the adjective I expected to hear!)

coverage -> chevruta

February -> chevruta

That is the MOST beautiful definition of knowledge. ty, Sarit

Noah ->. noa

Corvyn is back!!!

Whoooohoooo Noa! CODESWITCH SUPERPERSON! So hard to think, express, receive and integrate that language tsunami! I am in awe!

pshhh Anne you do it all the time. I learn from you!

^^^^ thanks for naming this anne!!!

Amen and amen!

Thank you for your generosity and wisdom!!!

Thank you everyone!

Also! If y'all have not read this awesome Torah from Kollel Fellow Kendra Watkins about havruta yet, please do. And if reading isn't your jam, hit me up and i will read it to you or sign it for you: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/reading-the-torah-towards-liberation

Noa Hitting you up for ASL reading!

^^yes THIS^^

you got it Anne <3

sep 6: open bet midrashsep 13: open bet midrashsep 20: final chazara, siyum

Ugh sorry I am late- I am recovering from Covid!!

R’fuah sh'leimah, Jennifer!

Thanks everyone!

amen!

Thank you so!

THANK YOU FOR CAPTIONING

thanks yall for this amazing learning and luxuriating in the chevruta love

Thank yo to Svara for making access your Torah

Thanks everyone!!

thanks ya'll :)))

*y'all

Thank you Corvyn for captions! Thank you everyone! Blessings on your learning <3

I'm in love with everything about this place. Thanks everyone, for making this place feel like home. 🥰

This ws just what I needed today. Big love to all.