Shel Maala comes to Northampton - Havdallah and Study

Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Sun, 16 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm UTC-05:00

Northampton Center for the Arts | Northampton

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Shel Maala comes to Northampton - Havdallah and Study
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Join Shel Maala, your online queer Yeshiva, live in Northampton, for an end-of-Shabbes ritual, and an afernoon of Juicy learning
About this Event

Shel Maala, your favorite online queer Yeshiva, is coming DOWN FROM THE CLOUD in Northampton, to offer a weekend of ritual and rad juicy learning.

The weekend of November 15 & 16, Rosh Yeshivas Xava and Binya will be in your gay Jewish homeland to lead a Shabbes and Sunday of rad Jewish goodness, all in collaboration with B'yameinu:

- Saturday Evening Havdallah 5-6pm - Havdallah + some extra songs and a lil torah

- Sunday Full Day of Badass Talmud Learning 1-4pm - Click the 'donate' button to get a ticket below!

We cannot WAIT to spend the weekend luxuriating in Torah, Talmud and prayer with y’all


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Alefbet isn't required.

We’ll be studying an amazing piece of Talmud about earthly kings, heavenly kings, and our vascillating desires for them.

Here’s more on the text we’ll be studying:

Shel Maala, the radical online queer Yeshiva, is coming back to the Northampton after our amazing weekend last year, to teach a Sunday afternoon about Jewish desire for, and resistance to, earthly power. Starting with an evocative passage in the Book of Samuel, where the Jews ask for a king against God's wishes, co-teachers Binya and Xava will trace our yearning to be like "all the other nations” from Rabbinic commentators all the way to the Israeli Declaration of independence. Come unearth arguments together about the very nature of Jewish government, what makes a good/kosher ruler (if such a thing is possible), with implications for Zionism, the decolonial left, anarchy, and more, today.

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Accessibility notes:

TBA

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Learning will be a mix of full group and xevruta (pair) study. You will be matched with a xevruta (study partner) after registration, based on the answers you provide!

There will be lots of yummy food and discussion. If you haven’t been in a physical Talmud learning space before, come and get excited!

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JUST Sunday Learning is $36, pay what you can.

Havdallah is free, but recommend a donation of $5-10

Full sliding scale will be shown at checkout.

(Shel Maala membership discounts apply for Xasids.)

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If you have any questions please email: [email protected]


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Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, United States

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