Shavuot and Pentecost: An Intimate Interfaith Gathering

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Join us for an intimate interfaith gathering to explore the dramatic interplay of Shavuot and Pentecost! The Jewish Festival of Shavuot and Christian Pentecost both celebrate powerful collective experiences of revelation.  Shavuot celebrates the giving of Torah at Mt. Sinai.  Pentecost celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit to the disciples of Yeshua/Jesus who gathered after his death on the eve of Shavuot in Jerusalem. 

Both festivals invite us into an experience of revelation that bonds an individual with a community.  Come learn more as Rabbi Marcia Prager and Quaker educator Rebecca Mays guide a sharing adventure, guiding participants in a facilitated Christian-Jewish interfaith dialogue. Our conversations culminate with a festive dinner as Shavuot begins, including traditional Shavuot dairy dishes. 

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Leaders

Rabbi Marcia Prager is the founding Director and Dean Emerita of Ordination Programs for ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, and Rabbi Emerita of P’nai Or: Jewish Renewal Congregation of Philadelphia, PA. She is the author of The Path of Blessing and creator of the unique P’nai Or Siddurim for Shabbat and other innovative approaches to prayer and liturgy. Along with Rabbi Shawn Zevit she co-directs the award-winning Davvenen’ Leadership Training Institute (DLTI), a retreat immersion training in the art of Jewish prayer.  

Rebecca Kratz Mays, co-clerk at Westtown Monthly Meeting of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, taught a synoptic gospels class at Pendle Hil in which she invited Rabbi Marcia Prager to come and teach the Lord’s Prayer as a well-known Jewish prayer in the 1st century.  That launched 15 years of a Quaker-Jewish dialogue using the Hebrew and Christian scripture stories to enliven and deepen each other’s traditions and practices.  She has also facilitated 16 years of interfaith dialogue at the Dialogue Institute at Temple University among international university students from the Middle East and Southeast Asia. 

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