EJCC Learning for All – Rabbi Sybil Sheridan “The Gender of God” 7.30 pm – via Zoom

EDINBURGH JEWISH CULTURAL CENTRE – Learning for All Event via Zoom

We know God has no gender, but when we talk about God we have to use human terms, and even in English, it is impossible to do so in entirely gender neutral language. From the beginning of the Bible there is evidence that God language includes female imagery as well as male. Is this evidence of the great insight of our ancestors, or relics of an ancient goddess worshipping culture? Either way, these female descriptions can broaden our understanding of what God is for us today.

Sybil Sheridan is Rabbi of the Newcastle Reform Synagogue and director of the Lyons Learning Project. She is co-chair of the Liberal Reform Rabbinic and Cantorial Ethics Committee and teaches the Assembly of Rabbis online conversion course for the Reform Beit Din.