Hi, everyone! Here’s a link where you can view and download the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Mzy8avzB3GziuQtj1MwSJEGyaN8cfGwAwFaz1oyrd3o/edit?usp=sharing

Erie, they/she/he, sick buuut pumped

Jon he/him bittersweet but excited

Alex, they/them, extremely scattered on everything except the very specific network of trivia about musical theatre of the early 80s i am fixating on

Rachel, she/her, excited about learning in lots of areas of my life

Paul; he/him, for the most part; looking forward to reviewing it all!

Hillel Gray, he/him, upbeat

Vera, she/her, reflecting

so beautiful to see your gorgeous faces <3

Hi, everyone! Here’s a link where you can view and download the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Mzy8avzB3GziuQtj1MwSJEGyaN8cfGwAwFaz1oyrd3o/edit?usp=sharing

I’m dedicating my learning to my new niece who entered the world during our class last week!

dedicated to a friend who has had cancer surgery today

agrippina rafaele, para refua

Dedicating my learning in gratitude to my chevruta, Caroline, and all they’ve taught and guided me in this zman. <3

Dedicating this learning to all the queers we lost to AIDS and those who have survived to pass on the blessing of their memories

Dedicating to my partner Jordan and my friend Chuck for a smooth and easy journey thru having covid

My cousin Eli may his (thank God) recovery from a car accident continue progressing well

Dedicating my learning today to the people of Ukraine, for safety and peace

--> Name, pronouns if you'd like--> Recitation (spend some time on this!)--> What do I feel is the most important word in this text?--> List five more keywords that this text is “about” (they can be words from the text, or concepts/themes about the text).--> What moves me/excites me about this text?--> List three big questions/ideas this text is exploring.--> In my own words (three to five sentences), I think this text is about…--> How does this text transform, interpret, subvert, destabilize, restrict, or expand what came before it?--> How might this text transform my own thinking/practice/ideas?--> Does this text show us anything about radical innovation?--> What is one thing this text shows us about the Rabbis?--> Who is being brought into this text?--> Who is being left out of this text?

Am I the only one who thinks of Harry Potter every time I get sucked out of the breakout rooms? Hope I never get splinched…

LOL

i am fully on the edge of my seat listening to this sugya!!

Yay chevruta!

That’s my chevrutah!

Wooooo!!!!

truly the best pride parade i've been to in years

Snaps to that

So good !!

I’m still kvelling at that recitation

I’ve got strange gods inside me in my body and in my soulI tried to kill my fear, so down that road I would not goMy rage, חמתי, lived on, it grew in silenceI’ve got strange gods inside me in my body and in my soulI tried לְמֶיעֱבָד נַחַת רוּחַ לְיִצְרי(lme’evad nachat ruach lyitzri)יִצְרִי was a child without a home, longing for what she lackedI’ve got strange gods inside me in my body and in my soulבְּקִלְקוּל יֵש תִיקוּן, בְּרֵאשִית הָיָה הַבְדָלָה)bqilqul yesh tikkun breishit hayah havdalah)לְתַקֵן אֵת הַעוֹלַם צְרִיכָה לְשַבֵר(ltakein et haolam tzricha lshaber)I’ve got strange gods inside me, they are my body and my soul

A BANJO??? YES!!!

omh

omg serious “The Devil laid ahold of me” vibes

@vera ^^^^^

wow

wooooow

WOW!!

Amazing. What a gift. Thank you Erie!

wooohooohoohohoo

This is the best surprise of our last class!!!

i LOVE this song

THAT WAS UNREAL

oh my true holy hashem

That needs to be on Soundcloud ASAP

Never kvelled more!!!!!!that’s my chevruta

recording?!

PLEASE - appalachia hasidic album

This is the best thing that has EVER HAPPENED TO ME I’m speechless

לְתַקֵן אֵת הַעוֹלַם צְרִיכָה לְשַבֵר

Agreed, Binya. This was amazing! This is so amazing

also Ishay Rosen-zvi and Talmud scholars would love the song about how the yetzer is a god inside you which is like a wholly new understanding of yetzer

Thank you all sooooo much !!

I appreciate that clarif

Clarification!

Shabbat is from the same root as sitting!

Anyone who thinks their thought is fully baked hasn’t been to our pride parade

lol

that’s really helpful, rachel

Caroline I love that your cat kind of slowly arose from the bottom of the screen as you were making this very serious point

I like that Caroline, especially because there isn’t a Masechet Feelings or a Masechet Mourning, so they have to work that stuff in other ways

I keep thinking of the data that show that people who punch walls and throw objects when angry are also more likely to physically abuse their intimate partners chas vshalom

I think there’s also something interesting in the idea of mkalkel al mnat l’taken - sometimes in life you first destroy, in order to then fix

atah hu rishon v’atah hu acharon

(Rip a seam in order to later fix it better) - not on shabbat, but a Malachi that needs to be done!

*malacha

I’m thinking, Vera, of our yetzer as our inner 2 year old, and that giving in to a toddler’s tantrums might make peace in the grocery store, but is not actually productive long term, often

(I mean, you made me think of that)

דקעביד

Caroline YES. And thinking that about the Russian war on Ukraine also - quieting the howling for the moment isn’t always a good predictor or guarantor for the future

Here's the link to the survey! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgt6kk3-qEHcYuWDnmbdWmUbtdiAX8peCs1uexnZqGbgQgbA/viewform?usp=sf_link

30 more seconds!

Finish up evaluations!

Summer Learning (mid-June)- Queer Talmud for Beginner’s Mind- Once-a-week and twice-a-week Bet Midrash sectionshttps://svara.org/learning/2022-summer-offerings/

Will there be an intense shiur?

not over the summer!

Street Team (April/May)- Diasporic Dinner Party & Cookalong- Vi’ye’hi Noam (And It Will Be Pleasure): Omer Counting Chabura- Revolutionary Reading Group: Heschel’s “The Sabbath”- “Where is it Written? Yentl from Singer to Streisand” Movie and Reading Grouphttps://svara.org/learning/yeshiva-calendar-21-22/#street

And to YOU

😍

+100 TO YOU!

Agreed!

Thank you Elaina!!!!!

Wooooo, thank you!!!

To a specific person or general?

I want to appreciate Binya for sending in check-in emails every week, and making me feel so held, even when I couldn't respond, and thank you to Miriam for de-confusing me many, many times! And thank you to Sarah Wolf for introducing the idea of yetzer as a demon!

i appreciate ur true genius

I’m grateful for my chevruta Vera

Appreciation for my chevruta, Frankie. Appreciation for this style of learning.

Appreciate being able to chevrutah with my old friend Hillel and this whole shiur for being so wholesome and amazing in helping explicate and think about this sugyah in so many new ways

Gratitude to Yehuda for breaking open the early part of this sugya for me and to Jenna for being an AMAZING chevruta and to Elaina for texting me to say I have to do this shiur

For the songs (so so happy) and the wonderful small chevrutah chazarah groups and the m’dikduk moments and the forest moments and the Torah of emotion and boundaries and Shabbat and chol and the life-giving sass of this group

For all the helpful challenges!

all of the unironic joy everyone brought to this shiur!

sooo grateful to Ma’ayan for our chevruta time being the highlight of my week every week

I have learned so much from each of you. I am grateful for how everyone showed up each week and shared your wisdom and questions <3 <3 <3

grateful for learning in pairs, small groups, and big groups!

incredibly appreciative of the hevre and the space created by teacher(s), for incisive and big picture thinking, in tandem, my chevrusa: קורע

the love is so clear and amazing! so much love for Talmud and each other! What a gift to learn together

Rachel Davidson’s expressive recitation from several weeks ago is still stuck in my head!

<33333 love love love to all of you

And even more grateful for moreinu Whitney.

need to add some banjo in here...

So thankful to get to learn with alex and talk life, torah, and THEATRE!

omg whitney appalachia talmud banjo fusion could be the genre just waiting to take the world by storm

You should have told us to bring party outfits!

get it hillel!

Thanks everyone!!!!