Malkah, she/her, proud.

Rusty, he/they, bittersweet

Virginia, she, calendar-challenged

My family

I'm dedicating my learning to friends recovering from covid.

Dedicating my learning tonight to my friend Ephraim Bassan in honor of his 39th anniversary

Dedicating my learning today to my spouse in honour of our 30th anniversary.

dedicating my learning to my chevrusa siera

to my kid, who has had to deal with both parents laid low by covid for the past 10 days

To my brothers and sister-in-law and my extended family and closest friends who came to my mother's unveiling on Sunday.

Dedicating my learning to my beautiful chevruta Leslie Batz - so grateful to you- and my beloved brother whose Yartzeit is tomorrow.

I'll dedicate my learning to my middle school students as I'm always reminded what it's like to be a learner in my learning

congrats Hadass!

migrants being treated as pawns and all trying to help

Thanks Channing! Still loving the idea of trivruta

Dedicating my learning to my chevruta Alisa Fineman and all the learning we have done together.

My landlords who are selling the entire street to someone who's likely going to turn these small houses into airbnb's and kick me and my kid out any minute. Learning what forgiveness could mean in this context

Dedicating to past, present and future trivrutahing!

berakhot 11b:בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה׳ אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶך הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּנוּ לַעֲסוֹק בְּדִבְרֵי תוֹרָהbarukh atah adonai eloheinu melekh ha’olam asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu la’asok b’divrei torahnonbinary hebrew project:בְּרוּךֶ אַתֶה חֲוָיָה שְׁכִינּוּ רוּחַ הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר קִדַשְׁתַנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתֶיהֶ וְצִוְתָנוּ לַעֲסוֹק בְּדִבְרֵי תוֹרָהb’rucheh ateh khavayah shekhinu ruach ha’olam asher kidash’tanu b’mitzvotei’he v’tziv’tanu la’asok b’divrei torahfeminine god language:בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ יָהּ אֱלֹהָתֵינוּ רוּחַ הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר קֵרְבָתְנוּ לַעֲבוֹדָתָהּ וְצִוְתָנוּ לַעֲסוֹק בְּדִבְרֵי תוֹרָהbrukhah at ya elohateinu ruach ha’olam asher keir’vat’nu la’avodatah v’tziv’tavnu la’asok b’divrei torah

"cosmic majesty" <-- gonna use that

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I'm liking this identifying by chevruta, and maybe we should use it more, instead of by parent(s) as is more common

^^

Thank you dear Leslie chevruta💖

Will!!!! Sara!!!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3

💖 Jonah you always stretch my brain!

absolutely loved learning with Bea!!!

LOVE LOVE LOVE studying with Channing!!!

THANK YOU Will & Nat <3 <3 <3

@hadass Love your patience with me, lol

Rusty is the best chevruta ever!

Right back at you Alisa, thank you!!!💗

completing the triruta shoutout with a SARA!!! NAT!!! <3

in Genesis, the word “ish" is not used until there is an "isha" -- leaving gender aside, there had to be more than just Adam

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Sugya Reflections - Discussion Questions:- What’s a word or phrase that’s sticking with you from this sugya?- How has this sugya influenced, added to, or conflicted with your ideas about teshuva?- Are any ideas from this sugya feeling uncomfortable or unsettled for you?- What from this learning are you bringing into your experience of the high holidays this year?

let me know if you need me to assign you to a room and which room!

WE NEEDED MORE TIME!!!

There is NEVER enough time, is there?

Thanks gedola tshuva team!!! Wow so much more to dig into!! B"H we get to continue learning together!

Always need more time!!!

Thanks Jonah, Elaina, Shira, Siera and Ada!

Amazing to listen to you all, group! Thank you so much!

mind blown

so happy to be talmud nerds with all y'all

^^^^

Discussion questions:- What did you learn about chevruta this zman?- What did this experience open up in your learning? Any discoveries or new possibilities?- What are you carrying forward from this experience?

Thanks Virginia and Tikva! We all sang the praises of our chevrutot … your ears should have been burning, LOL! We learned so much from you.

Feeling enriched, also, cozy.

strength

slowing down together

I just forever want rabbinic rebuke to be called "the beef between the butcher and the rabbi”

human connection

friendship

lol Tikva

the joy of butting heads

Two minds are always going to go further than one

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<3 Jenn

what does where are you in your learning mean? Like how far we got? or Washington DC? or what?

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@Virginia, how far you got! but answer however you like, i guess

🙂

I'm assuming how far you got in the SVARA process - inside translation, outside translation, chazara …

yes!^ Like how far in the sugya - did you finish?

Maybe shows my age here but somehow I'm thinking of Dustin Hoffman's character in The Graduate being asked what he was going to do next, having just graduated. And he says, “I think I'll go up to my room.”

🥳

I've never seen that movie Virginia but I like that a lot!

OMG Siera try and see it if you can.

so good that movie

We are signed up for Becky's Bet Midrash in the fall!!

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Come learn with me -- I'm hilarious at 9pm eastern

^ endorsed

Or learn with Bronwen, who is hilarious all the time!

Yah, I do want more shiur.

I basically went and badgered Becky for that, LOL

Or Julie who is a MASTER teacher.

But I hevruta the jokes with Becky first ;)

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More SVARA swag. Elul is too short

Grateful to all of you, carrying on our learning at all hours, and with the expansiveness of time we're learning, forever expanding the reads of the text. And to anyone who took a chevruta risk this elul. THANK YOU!!!

EVERYONE WHO WRONGED ME (and gave me a chance to learn to forgive them, myself, and appreciate more nuances)

grateful for the text itself and the dictionary and the many who struggled with both over such a long time

Thank you Tikva for showing up every morning. Thank you for learning with me. This one is for our daughters!!

For our flexible and skillful captioner Esther! and Corvyn from Week 1 tooo

much gratitude to all y'all at svara for creating this space :)

Group hevruta is amaaaaaazing. It’s a hevruta snowflake! Or a prism! Gorgeous!

my chevruta Tom

chevruta 🧡

so appreciative of this community! it's better than I could have imagined and i'm so happy to have found you all 🙂

for chazal who apparently understood how provocative micro-fiction is

Huge appreciation to Will and Sara for always being so incisive and also so fun!

presence and love for this group!

I'm so grateful for my chevruta Ada's wisdom, skill, kindness, hard work and time this Elul!

Thank you to all the planners who put together this learning session so thoughtfully

Grateful for everyone in SVARA in general and my chavruta Jonah in particular 💖

for breaking open

Brilliance

SVARA and my awesome chevruta!!!

Amen

Jenn <3

I <3 my chevruta

THANKS, NERDS <3

I'm in CST and extra gratitude for y'all in EST!

zzzzzz

serving up the full version of the Elul Nigun so you all have time to save the chat too!

^grateful for that, too

Shana tova umetuka to all, may we all be written and sealed in the Book of Love. I shall be bereft without Mishna Collective but thankful for the Lounge.

night y'all and many thanks :)

I meant to type Book of Life but Book of Love works too.

<3

same thing hadass

Laila tov!

💛💛💛💛💛💛 to all of you!!!

good night y'all! shana tova!

whoa Hadass that's a good drash on that end of the Gedolah Teshuva short