Please tell Nos which you’d like to take. What you do with it is up to you, but most people have given a brief presentation of 5-10 minutes, followed by a discussion. Total, about 15 minutes.

1. Lead a study of the death of Jacob (Gen. 47:28 – 49:33, or whichever passages you select)
2. Why is Jonah not in the Five Megillot?
3. What is a wave offering anyway? Is shaking the Lulav a wave offering? Are the Kohanim a wave offering?
4. Should we duchan at the West Side Minyan?
5. What do we do that harkens back to Temple practice?
6. What lessons do we learn from the prophets?
7. How do we apply “Don’t do unto others as you wouldn’t have them do to you” or “Love your neighbor as yourself” today?
8. Is saying Yizkor like ancestor worship?
9. Why don’t we tell the Exodus story in the Haggadah?
10. What did the Torah we received at Sinai consist of? Just the 10 Commandments? The Five Books of Moses? The whole of the Written Law and Oral Law? Or something else? Taken by Nos
11. Teach a Shavuot song. Taken by Amy Little
12. Lead a study of a passage in the Book of Ruth Taken by Marge Goldstein
13. What do we mean by “Honor your father and your mother”?
14. Teach about the mitzvah of taharah. Taken by Debby Mowshowitz.
15. Noah & Shevuoth Gila Lipton
16. Why dairy on Shavuot? And if we don't know, should we do it anyway?" Avi Mowshowitz
17. What does Paradise Lost teach us about good and evil? Jacob Sher

If you have your heart set on something else, please drop me a note. Likewise if you have any questions. And thanks to Iris for helping come up with the topics.

Thanks everyone,
Nos
nos@westsideminyan.org