Elaina Marshalek, Author at SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva

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A Talmud sits on a table, propped up by a bookstand, open to a page. There are small, blue stickies marking the place on one of the pages.

And You Will Live By Them

A volume of Talmud sits open on a table. A learner can be seen sitting next to it. There is a rainbow alef-bet tool placed across the pages.

The Uncountable Queer Contradictions of Rabban Gamliel: A Roundtable Discussion

A fairy stands beside a SVARA learner in the bet midrash. They are both looking at a page of Talmud together.

Drama in the Bet Hamikdash: The Little-Known Yom Kippur Weepfest

A group of people sit around a table in the bet midrash. Folks appear to be clapping up a person in the middle of the frame, who smiles and glances down at the volume of Talmud in front of them. Everyone is smiling and glancing towards the person in the center.

The Fullness of Every Word

Three SVARA-niks sit at a wooden table in the distance. The table is sitting on a field of grass, and it is shaded by a large, leafy-green tree.

Going From Inside to Outside

Seven SVARA-niks sit around a table in the bet midrash, covered in open Talmuds and dictionaries. A few of them are clapping for one of their fellow learners.

In Wisdom, in Numbers: Changing the Outcome With Collective Power

A group of SVARA-niks sit around a table. Most of them are looking off to the left of the camera, but one of them is looking at the camera.

Finding Strength at the Edge of Understanding

Three SVARA-niks sit at a white table with their Talmuds and dictionaries out, facing the camera. Between them, two SVARA faculty, wearing fairy wings, lean over and point to a spot in their Talmuds.

The Lineage of Pushing Toward Bolder Reads

A group of SVARA-niks learn with chevruta across a table in an indoor bet midrash. On the left, the SVARA-nik closest to the camera is smiling contentedly.

Sharpening Our Wildest Dreams

A group of SVARA-niks sit at a table in the bet midrash. In the center, two of them are holding hands across the table, looking at one another and smiling.

Nurturing Our Dedications Into Being

Two chevruta sit over a table, with Talmuds and Jastrows open.

A Tapestry of Individual Actions & Collective Power