Tikkun leyl (2026)

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.

You can watch the recorded sessions here:

Cantor Rachel Weston leyns Ruth chapter 1

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?

Rabbi Gabriel Kanter-Webber – ‘You could have fled’: choosing our bedfellows with integrity

Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen – Into glowing coals: the dissent of a hidden Biblical everywoman who stopped a famine and lit a torch

© Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen, 2026.
This material is part of ongoing doctoral research at the University of Leeds (AHRC funded through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH).) Shared for discussion purposes only. Please do not reproduce or circulate without permission, and ensure full attribution when referencing this work.

Rabbi Margaret Jacobi – Elisha ben Abuya and the limits of dissent

Handout here

Rabbi Dr Barbara Borts – A fist to the Heavens: challenging God in Jewish tradition

Rabbi Dr Judith Rosen-Berry – On the edges: the Bambi story read as a book of Jewish dissent