ShavuotLIVE 2025: Quote-Board!

We always wish we could share the magic of the chat during ShavuotLIVE, so we compiled some highlights from our 2025 event below!


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“I have 7 Hood Famous mini cheese cakes in my fridge right now...”

“Hello from Sam, Moses (age 12) and Ari (9) on Wangal land  - colonially known as Sydney Australia 🙂 Woohoo!”

“This is the day when we’re coming up the mountain!”

“I love that Lex has a closet of nearly-identical striped blue polos.”

“Give me an OathMilk Latte!”

“Cheeri-OATHS…”

“We must renew/mature our understanding of what we promised before. we are expected to grow/change over time, so our present self must make the new commitment to our oath/vow.”

“In Victoria, Canada! SO EXCITED be here - planning on spending the whole night with words of torah as the background sound while I clean my whole house!”

 “Rainbow = HaShem’s bow = Priddddde”

 “Our "Oats" gathered through Shavuot symbolize our elevated and ripened Oaths. bad pun alert”

“I think of it with minor oaths we made/forgot about, and if we REMEMBER them then it's a good time to renew and refresh if you want to keep them”

 “MY GUINEA PIG JUST RAN ACROSS MY KEYBOARD AND TURNED ON ALL CAPS! THANK YOU PIGGY!”

 “Shavuot's wheat harvest and revelatory synesthesia could also be ergot related 🤷🏻.”

 “Yom Kippur (Fall) and Shavuot (Spring/Summer): talking to each other”

 “Currently zooming in from Scotland so ShavuotLIVE will be my lullaby to start”

 “Shavua tov! From São Paulo, Brazil – this is my second time”

 “Random request, but if anyone has a good recipe for gluten free blintzes, please let me know!”

 “ 2 eggs, gluten-free crepes for blintzes, 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup sweet rice flour, 1/4 cup tapioca starch or cornstarch, 1.5 Tablespoons melted butter, pinch salt”

“Multiple gf blintzes recipes in minutes. I knew I’d found my people!”

“Chat Torah is my favorite Torah ❤️”

“Re : Mountain over the head .... But there are some vows you can't deny and they do hang heavy. Being trans was a mountain over my head, but I still can't deny the revelation. Now I can dance with it.”

“I love Nadav and Abihu.”

“I've been to Shavuot Live more times than years I've officially been Jewish”

“Years ago, I was pressured by other trans friends to present myself in a particular way/to pursue passing. I was never very good at it, but over time I’ve totally changed my gender expression, my pronouns, and other things tied to my transness. My transness has been a mountain, solid and true, but the hillsides have changed.”

“I also love the idea that shekhina clothed Esther/clothes us in holiness/holy ruach. Because I feel like gender/transness and becoming ourselves every day is that holy breath/sprit.”

“Sheva/Shava-Oath-Milk Tres/Trace-Leches Cheesecake”

“I always hear Erev Rav as the Night Rabbi”

“Team Erev Rav (aka The Riffraff)!”

“Shout out to people on the margins”

“Receiving can take a lifetime to learn.”

“Revelation is an each and every day event.”

“I’ve been looking forward to this for weeks!”

“As a person with a rather narrow range between bored and overwhelmed, I’d appreciate a quiet hideout at the massive magical mountain party!”

“Wearing noise cancelling headphones at Siani but can still hear Adonai xD”

“I think part of each holy text may have been written on drug trips, which makes me giggle”

“Robin Wall Kimmerer’s writing has so much wisdom to share that falls right in line with the ideas of reciprocity in Torah. I think about this when I make the blessing hafrishat challah - an acknowledgement that baking bread is a way of conversing and co-creating with the Divine Source of All”

“Kitties get revelation, too!”

“lowkey I'm having so many breakthroughs that I will be bringing up with my therapist in 3 days!”

“It’s like the TV show The Good Place - a human intervention for the purpose of accounting for the messiness of human existence within the divine judgement system”

“‘Did anybody else cry through that entire thing?’ 🩵”

“If I don't cry is it really Judaism Unbound?”

"A while ago, my revelation was that I was never going to wear uncomfortable shoes again"

“You don't have to know the way  .... the way knows the way!”

“We're popcorning our way up the mountain.”

“Transitiooooons, transitions!”

“‘A parade of characters you carry around in your pocket’ — yes! This is what I love about tarot!”

“Judaism Un-Buttoned!”

“JEWITCHES MENTIONED!”

“Magic Moshe”

“If you roll all sixes you get to keep your foreskin!”

“Sunday in the park with the Jewish American Princess”

“The world depends on theater kids.”

“I have a dog who loves listening to Jewish study, especially if there's Hebrew in it”

“Countries don't speak - individuals do.”

“Being jewish is so fucking expensive"

“Lex, the anti-clerical rabbi”

“ ‘Rapture Bait’ was not on my bingo card for tonight!”

“I love the ways our liturgy can be flexible to include these types of in-the-moment prayers and thoughts. With that said, sometimes it's just not enough. Shortly after October 7 there was one day when I wound up just rocking back and forth saying the words "oseh shalom" (make peace) over and over again and crying. I don't know.”

“Hey commentators of the future, argue over me, baby.”

“Breaking isn’t always destructive - we break eggs and nuts to reach the nourishment therein. We sometimes need to break bones to heal them.”

“Throw ducks! Truly a late night experience!”

 "Make fun of me for the duck thing forever"

 “I’m at the stage where I’m starting to get loopy, y’all!”

 “Stargaze – does that make us stargays?”

 “I like makin’ a pretty little graphic! So here’s the representation of god!”

 “The torah of spilled breastmilk – Galactation”

 “My roller derby name is Leviathan, so this is all just super confusing to me”

 “Is that picture... horseradish? a big sideways zayin?”

 “It’s about 2pm here in Cambodia, I’m good 😁”

 “(God on the phone ordering the stars) Hello, I'd like one Universe with all the stars.”

 (Clock crosses Midnight from May 31st to June 1st): “I've been here since last month”

 “Thank you random christians who are very into Jews”

 “My milk lakes bring all the Kohanim to the yard.”

 “Wait you made your own Shavuot upside-down-mountain video filter???”

 “MOSES IS A DUCK”

 “Moses is afraid of angel breath. Angels are afraid of questions.”

 “Paging Tzvi, Shabbatai Tzvi, please pick up a red courtesy phone”

 “If I can get Lex mad, I've had a good day"

 “What if what they thought what God was giving Moses was a different torah than the one we got? IE they thought we were getting a higher expression than we were capable of even receiving??”

 “What's under yer garment Magic Moshe?"

 “The Torah: is it a particle or is it a wave? Yes.”

 “We can tell where the Torah is but not how fast it's going. It’s a Heisentorah.”

“Judaism Unbuttoned - I mean, Unbound -  is a core piece of my Judaism.”

 “I'm working on this piece of art with this golem... but that's not what I'm going to share.”

 “I’m going to eat cheesecake now that I’m off the spotlight 😄”

 “Ah yes, our Daddy, our king.”

 "We'll be making fun of the rabbis which is always wonderful."

 “I call Jewish emojis ‘Chai-roglyphics’”

 “I appreciate the linkage of tzitzit with the concept of binding, as I have never for myself been comfortable physically with the "binding" of tefillin, but always feel so very embraced when wearing my tallis.”

 “Each time you check your tzitzit to make sure they are tied, tightening them, touching them, you are reweaving creation.”

 “Shavuot is the most autistic holiday in the most autistic religion, how could we NOT want to be diagramming sentences at 9am on a Sunday??”

 “Here at Judaism *unbound* we're excited to discuss the binders of bindings.”

 “This talk has created one of the best micro communities I’ve ever been a part of, ephemeral though it may be.”

 “It's a red flag, and not the good kind of red flag!”

 “ShavuotLIVE is so good for my reading list!”

 “Definitely gonna be using the term great stupidities from now on.”

 “Definitely the case that of the controversial viewpoints featured in this presentation, not-watching-much-star-trek is top of the list.”

 “Gonna use that as a way to voice my disagreement with everything now: ‘As the great Albert Einstein once said, ‘I believe it is bad.’”

 “Woo-daism Unbound”

 “The kedusha/holiness of our grief.”

 “Dandelion Insurrection - reading list material y’all.”

 “For the body, draw a potato.”

 “Where was this drawing exercise during the potato famine?”

 “Baruch Spin-knows a thing or two about puns.”

 “Spinoza’s hair is so big because it's full of secrets”

 “I sooooo agree with your staunch disagreement”

 “Harem? I hardly know ‘em!”

 “Behold a man! (holds up a potato)”

 “yesss!!!! G!d is one with all of creation, the spark of divinity connects us to all atoms of existence.”

 “I *am* that guy who wore the band's shirt to the concert.” (Gestures to Sefirot t-shirt)

 "comparisons and contrastions?"

 “An infinite divine source - beyond boundaries, beyond form”

 “The chat is it's own Talmudic spiral”

 “The chat is Leviathan splashing in the waves of grain grown from the light of illumination and fertilizer raining down on the cloud mountain.”

 “Women loving women, and we love women”

 “Independence does not mean always doing things yourself. It means you are in control as to when you do something yourself and when you accept help.”

 (On Ruth) “More like footmaid…”

 "Maybe I'm speakin' as a Jew ~ Danya Ruttenberg”

 “A queer polycule creates King David, ancestor of Moshiach… Queer polycules are important for the world!”

 “Nobody tried to kill us! Let's eat cheesecake!”

 “Kilobyte Megabyte Moabite”

 “Your pod will be my pod”

 “matchmaker matchmaker Patreon match”

“Lashon hara yourself, but not your neighbor.”

 “So you’re Yentl-ing Yenta.”

 “Shitting-yourself stories are disability justice too <3!”

 “ ‘This #2 is Torah’ is super, and also its own kind of Torah”

 “We’ve lost the laugh track.”

 “By turning it into material, you make it immaterial”

 “Are we explicitly trying to save the world? Yes, obviously. Are we explicitly saving the world. Yes, obviously. Duh!”

 "It's not activism, it's clarity"

 "May each of us connect with our own inner Reb Arthur."

 “I don’t give a flying fuck whether it's Jewish, or Christian, or some made-up religion. Or anything else. Paganism, whatever you want to call it. It doesn't matter.” – Arthur Waskow

“I can’t run or walk fast enough to not be arrested - which I have been 28 times.”

“I’ve decided the only way to pronounce YHVH is [exhales].”

“Judaism Unbound is truly unbound."

“La’asok it in.”

“We’re wtf-ing the ineffable”

"What's happening here is actually the revelation at Sinai. It's not a remembrance of the revelation at Sinai."

 “1000 women & one dude in a trenchcoat is anashim (masculine-plural).”

 “Hebrews, Shebrews, and Theybrews”

 “Question: How am I still awake? Discovery: This will be one of the most sacred holidays in my Jewish life cycle. Confusion: How am I still awake?”

 “Access is chesed.”

 “I'm a Judaism Unbound listener, but I'm a ShavuotLivenik.”

 “I can’t wait to end up on the ShavuotLIVE 2025 quote wall!”


You made it to the end! Thank you to everyone who contributed and participated in ShavuotLIVE this year, you make this event the magical experience that it is. We couldn’t do it without you. See you next year!

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