Following the success of our 2025 tikkun leyl Shavuot, Voices for Prophetic Judaism is delighted to announce a repeat performance – with brand-new sessions and topics – this year, on the theme of Dissent.
Click here to sign up for the Zoom link: the event will take place on Erev Shavuot, Thursday 21 May.
Our timetable will be:
| (Zoom room opens 7:30pm) | |
| 8pm | Welcome |
| 8:10pm | Cantor Rachel Weston leyns Ruth chapter 1 |
| 8:20pm | Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah – ‘If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution’: what can we learn from the Miriam stories in Exodus 15 and Numbers 12 about dissent? |
| 9pm | Comfort break |
| 9:10pm | Rabbi Gabriel Kanter-Webber – ‘You could have fled’: choosing our bedfellows with integrity |
| 9:40pm | Comfort break |
| 9:50pm | Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen – Into glowing coals: the dissent of a hidden Biblical everywoman who stopped a famine and lit a torch |
| 10:35pm | Comfort break |
| 10:45pm | Rabbi Margaret Jacobi – Elisha ben Abuya and the limits of dissent |
| 11:20pm | Comfort break |
| 11:30pm | Rabbi Dr Barbara Borts – A fist to the Heavens: challenging God in Jewish tradition |
| 12:15am | Comfort break |
| 12:25am | Rabbi Dr Judith Rosen-Berry – On the edges: the Bambi story read as a book of Jewish dissent |
| 12:45am | Sikkum (conclusion) |
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