In the City of Angels: Jews Up All night With God

JEWISH JOURNAL
By Edmond Rodman

Detail of Shechina on “Angel Wall”

CALIFORNIA---In a City of Angels, with murals and figures of the agents of heaven fluttering everywhere, as we approach Shavuot and the time of Matan Torah — the receiving of the Torah — you would think that finding a place to have a revelatory moment would be as easy as stepping outside. On the night of June 3, many Jews here will celebrate the first night of Shavuot by traveling to their own Mount Sinais, climbing a metaphorical mountain of ideas, impressions and words that will be presented to help them imagine what it means to receive the Torah. According to a midrash, the Jewish people slept the entire night before receiving the Torah. [link]