Yeshiva Calendar ’22-’23

There are many opportunities throughout the year to get some Talmud served up the old-fashioned way—hardcore, queer, and radically inclusive—with SVARA! Below you’ll find information about daily/weekly drop-in learning, as well as our lineup of upcoming multi-week classes. Check out what’s comin’ up at your fave queer yeshiva! Not sure where to start? Here’s how to get started on your Queer Talmud journey!

All of the learning spaces below follow SVARA’s accessibility protocols and aspire to our community norms.

 

YEAR-ROUND LEARNING

MISHNAH COLLECTIVE

Monday-Friday at 1:30-2:00 PM ET / 12:30-1:00 PM CT / 10:30-11:00 AM PT. REGISTER HERE

We’ll work our way through Mishnah Berachot piece by piece, in the SVARA method. No prior Hebrew experience or learning is necessary to participate. Whether you can join every day, once a week—we can’t wait to learn with you!

Access note: SVARA’s Daily Drop-in Mishnah Collective is live-captioned. Please note that all SVARA programming, including Mishnah Collective, is for folks 18 and up.

Have any questions, comments, or concerns about Mishnah Collective? Contact Ren, the Mishnah Collective Coordinator, at ren@svara.org

 

THE ORAL TALMUD

Weekly on Thursdays at 12:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM CT / 9:00 AM PT. WATCH HERE

Each week in The Oral Talmud, Benay Lappe & Dan Libenson offer an introduction to Talmud through a traditionally radical lens. In each session, Benay & Dan explore key stories and other material from the Talmud that was left there by the early Rabbis as a how-to manual for re-imagining Judaism after the previous version “crashes.” Alternating weeks feature conversations with scholars and thinkers on Talmud to understand the Talmud more deeply from the perspective of contemporary academic study and creative re-interpretation. There’s no registration required! Join each week, drop in whenever you can, or watch recordings of previous sessions here.

 

LEARNING BY MONTH

August-September

 

 

THE COVID SPIRITUAL PRACTICE GROUP | REGISTER HERE

The Covid Spiritual Practice Group is a drop-in space led by SVARA Fellow Jess Belasco of the Disability Justice Torah Circle. This will be an ongoing spiritual practice & support group for people who identify as still taking the pandemic very seriously, and feeling gaslit and abandoned by most of society. We will strive to be collaborative and will explicitly center the wisdom and experiences of high-risk people. Reach out to Jess Belasco at jcbelasco@gmail.com if you would like to discuss these events.