Shavuot at Pearlstone

Name: Shavuot at Pearlstone
Start: 2027-06-10T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2027-06-13T23:59:59-04:00
Location: Pearlstone Retreat Center & Campus

June 10, 2027 - June 13, 2027

Pearlstone Retreat Center & Campus (Reisterstown, MD) + Google Map

Join us for Shavuot at Pearlstone

This annual immersive retreat is filled with inspiring Jewish learning, spirited singing, festive farm-to-table meals, and a pluralistic community building experience.

Retreat Details

Please join us for this unique and inspiring Shavuot retreat!

We will offer a meaningful Shavuot experience featuring Torah study sessions, communal song circles, soulful prayer, exploring nature and more with our guest leadership and program team.

Enjoy delicious farm-to-table meals and a full schedule of activities for all ages in our beautiful setting. Prayer options will include Mechitza and Traditional Egalitarian Minyanim and we’ll offer daily sessions of yoga and meditation. Our drop-off morning kids camp and exciting kids programming throughout is a highlight for families.

Gather and celebrate with us this Shavuot!

Program Highlights

2026 highlights coming soon

Pearlstone ignites Jewish passion and enables people to authentically connect to their Jewish roots.

Impactful, hands-on experiences bring Jewish tradition to life while fostering connections in body, mind, heart and soul. We look forward with great excitement to creating an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind, and meaningful Shavuot experience for you and your family!

Click HERE to see last year’s schedule

Lodging & Pricing

Adults (18+):

Lodge 1, 2 or 3, Multiple Occupancy (2+ adults per room, two queen beds and a pull-out couch): $720 per person
Lodge 5, Double Occupancy (2 adults, One queen Bed and a pull-out chair): $675 per person
Lodge 5, Single Occupancy (1 adult per room, one queen bed and a pull-out chair): $1025 per person
Lodge 4- Family Style Rooms (4-6 twin beds): $505 per adult
Shared Bunkhouse (linens included, but additional camping gear recommended): $390 per person

Children: Rates assume sharing a room with at least one adult, regardless of lodging style

Teen- 13-17 years old: $345 per person
Child-5 – 12 years old: $295 per person
Toddler- 2- 4 years old: $140 per person
Infants-Under 2 years old: $0 per person, but must be registered

For questions, please email our registrar.

We are committed to making our programs accessible and affordable. Click here for our scholarship application. Scholarships are awarded on a rolling basis and scholarship funding is limited.

Teachers and Educators

David Rendsburg

Chief Finance and Administration Officer

David started at Hazon in 2006 and staffed over 40 bike rides for Hazon before transitioning to the Director of Data and Analytics and then to Adamah CFO. After 15 years in Manhattan, David and his family moved to Philadelphia in summer 2020.

Chazzan Yoni Stokar

Chazzan Yoni Stokar is a NJ based musician and prayer leader. He lives with his wife and three sons in Fair Lawn where he is the Cantor at Congregation Bnai Sholom/Fair Lawn Jewish Center, and the Drummer and Band Leader of Ta Shma Orchestra. Yoni has performed and recorded with bands and performers across the spectrum of Jewish music and has led performances and services around the world. Yoni has served as the Chazan/Artist in Residence for Pesach at Pearlstone the last three years. He released his first solo album in 2023.

Joey Weisenberg

Musician, composer, and teacher Joey Weisenberg is the founder and director of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, which cultivates grassroots musical-spiritual creativity in Jewish community. Joey works to educate and train communities around the world to make music a vibrant, joy-filled force in Jewish life. He is the author of The Torah of Music (2017 National Jewish Book Award) and Building Singing Communities. L’eila, his eighth album of original music, is his latest release on Rising Song Records.

Julie Tonti

Julie Tonti is a Potter, Jewish Educator and Yoga Teacher residing outside Washington, DC where she runs her business, Claybrook Yoga and Pots. She enjoys spending time in nature and laughing with her 3 children.

Rabbi Matisyahu Tonti

Rabbi Matisyahu Tonti has spent four years living and studying in Israel where he received a certificate in Jewish Philosophy and Pedagogy from the Shalom Hartman Institute, and Smicha from Yeshivat Sulam Ya’akov in Jerusalem. He holds a BA from Siegal College of Judaic Studies in Jewish Education.

Chana Raskin

Chana Raskin, founder and facilitator of RAZA, grew up entrenched in the world of Chabad Hasidut and its stirringly complex melodies. These nigunim have carried her at every point on her journey. Her debut album KAPELYA was released by Rising Song Records in February 2023, followed by sold-out concerts in NYC, Jerusalem and Los Angeles. Chana leads RAZA circles—meditative nigun deep dives—for diverse communities around the world. Both in her music and song circles, and especially in her one-on-one sessions, Chana strives to hold a space with others recovering from illness or traumatic injury, or simply seeking Home. She revels in the healing powers of quiet, laughter, humming and movement, and resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains with her family.

Dr. Joel Hecker

Joel Hecker is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Mysticism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He is the author of Volume 11 and (with Nathan Wolski) Volume 12 of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition; Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah; co-editor of Emotion in the Jewish Mystical Tradition; and numerous articles in the history of Jewish Mysticism. He received rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University (1990) and his PhD in Jewish Studies from New York University (1996).

Frani S. Pollack

Frani S. Pollack is a licensed social worker and psychologist. She has been in clinical practice for 30 years and teaches graduate students at several University settings including the University of Pennsylvania and Yeshiva University offering classes in her community and conferences and contributing writing to journals and book publications. Frani has studied the Mussar Literature for the last 12 years and has integrated Mussar with her knowledge of psychology

Yocheved Sidof

Yocheved Sidof is a spiritual teacher, mystic, and midwife of the unseen — weaving Kabbalistic wisdom, trauma restoration and embodied presence into encounters with the depths of Self. Her work lives at the seam between Mystery and Memory. Through Torah, somatic practice, collective witnessing, and pilgrimages to ancestral lands (Poland and Israel), she guides individuals and communities into the places that feel unholdable — and stays with them long enough for transformation to ground. A graduate of intensive trainings in collective trauma restoration with Thomas Hübl and PhD student in Transpersonal Research, she's the founder of Ohmek and teacher of Underneath the Underneath, a weekly class in Torah and embodied mysticism. She founded and led Lamplighters Yeshivah, an internationally recognized Hasidic Montessori school. Iranian-American, rooted in Chassidic practice, mother of five, in love with the process of becoming. Visit ohmekliving.com/about-yocheved.

Ian Yosef Hertzmark

Ian Yosef Hertzmark and his family live and operate Migrash Farm on 32 acres in Baltimore County, MD, growing grains and legumes, market vegetables, and rare fruits.  Yosef produces stone ground flours, cold rolled flakes, food-grade kernels and farm seed. Yosef brings decades of study and integration connecting Torah and Earth.

Rabbi Ezra Seligsohn

Rabbi Ezra Seligsohn is joining us from Bala Cynwyd, Philadelphia. Most recently, he served as the Associate Rabbi at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale – The Bayit, and on the faculty of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. Ezra graduated from Yeshiva University, and as a Wexner fellow, received Semikha from YCT in 2017.

Rabbi Dr. Yehudi Meshchaninov

Rabbi Dr. Yehudi Meshchaninov holds a doctorate in Organizational Psychology and Adult Learning and Leadership from Columbia University. Ordained at the Rabbinical College of Pretoria, he spent nearly two decades immersed in Jewish education while building a career as an organizational consultant and executive coach — working with organizations ranging from Macy's, Citi, and Lockheed Martin to Dropbox and charity: water. He currently serves as a Principal Specialist in Leadership and Change at Oliver Wyman, one of the world's leading management consultancies, and consults through his own practice, Leadership Labs NY. Someone who has always straddled many worlds, he has an enduring passion for exploring how they can illuminate each other.

Azi Grysman

Azi Grysman is Associate Professor of Psychology at Dickinson College. His research on memory includes work on gender, memory conversations, and the stories we tell about important life experiences. He is currently working on a book provisionally titled "Inheriting a Holocaust Legacy: Memory, Trauma, and Meaning Across Three Generations". Azi lives in Pikesville with his wife Gavi, and children, Miriam, Leor, and Shalev Grysmintz.

Aja Cohen

Aja Cohen brings experience, energy, and heart to every class. Her mission is simple: leave every student smiling. With 20+ years of practice and certifications in both adult and kids yoga, Aja blends mindfulness, playfulness, and meaningful movement to create an uplifting experience for all ages and levels.

Dr. Gavriella Mintz

Dr. Gavriella Mintz is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Pikesville. She has expertise in the treatment of anxiety, OCD, complex traumas, and parenting support. She has previously worked in various settings, including child abuse centers, juvenile rehabilitation centers, addiction treatment programs, college counseling centers, hospitals, and schools.

Judry Subar

Judry Subar has been studying Jewish texts and ideas since he was a day school student in Rochester, New York. Mr. Subar has led various learning initiatives on Talmud, Bible, and more. Prior to retiring in 2018, he was an attorney at the US Department of Justice.

Shira Zeliger

Shira Zeliger received a dual MA in Near Eastern/Judaic Studies and Jewish Professional Leadership through the Hornstein Program at Brandeis University. Shira spent four years teaching and leading in Toronto before moving to Baltimore, where she has taught at the Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community High School and at various local congregations.

For more information about accommodations, dining, transportation, and campus amenities, please visit our Guest Information and FAQ page.

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Details

Start: June 10, 2027
End: June 13, 2027
Event Categories: Featured, Holidays, Pearlstone, Retreats

Venue

Pearlstone Retreat Center & Campus
5425 Mt. Gilead Rd
Reisterstown, MD 21136