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Rabbi David Fried

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Teshuvah

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D’var Torah; Halakhah; Teshuvah; Community; Context; Debate; LGBTQ; Literary devices; Marriage; Queer; Relationships; Sexuality; Society

Rabbi David Fried responds to Rabbi Fox’s teshuvah on nashim mesolelot by refuting some of his basic claims and assessing the implications of his perspective.

Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Teshuvah

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D’var Torah; Halakhah; Teshuvah; Challenge; Context; Debate; Identity; LGBTQ; Queer; Rashi; Sexuality; Shulchan Aruch; Society; Talmud

Rabbi Ysoscher Katz responds to Rabbi Fox’s teshuvah with uncertainty about giving a ruling against the Shulchan Aruch, while also holding space for the individual and her experience.

Rabbi Aviva Richman

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Teshuvah

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D’var Torah; Halakhah; Teshuvah; Comparative texts; Context; Culture; Family; Feminism; Kedushah; Lens; LGBTQ; Marriage; Perspectives; Relationships; Queer; Sexuality; Translation

Rabbi Aviva Richman responds to Rabbi Fox’s teshuvah with a call to frame the teshuvah within the realms of more than damage control, highlighting the alternate lenses onto the question.

Yali Szulanski

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Holidays / Pesach

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D’var Torah; Holidays; Pesach; Community; Compassion; Connection; Emotions; Empathy; Freedom; Identity; Mishneh Torah; Suffering; Support; Tanakh

As Pesach begins, so does an underlying imperative to open our eyes to those around us. Yali Szulanski compares the ways in which Moshe saw the suffering of those around him to our communal obligations.

Rabbi Jeffrey Fox

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Teshuvah

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D'var Torah; Halakhah; Teshuvah; Acharonim; Community; Compassion; Context; Identity; Kedushah; Kohen; LGBTQ; Marriage; Midrash; Queer; Rashi; Relationships; Rishonim; Sexuality; Society; Talmud

The question of how healthy relationships stand up against the stigma against the queer community in Judaism is a deeply painful conversation. Rabbi Jeffrey Fox explores the sources, from the mishnah through modern-day, in an undertaking of the question.

Rabba Sara Hurwitz

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Teshuvah

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D’var Torah; Halakhah; Teshuvah; Community; Diversity; Haggadah; Identity; LGBTQ; Maggid; Queer

Being a queer Jewish woman is an identity which holds space for complexity. Rabba Sara Hurwitz introduces a series of teshuvot answering questions gay women have asked Maharat over time.

Rabbi Dr. Zev Farber

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Teshuvah

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D’var Torah; Halakhah; Teshuvah; Anatomy; Comparative texts; Connection; History; Kabbalah; LGBTQ; Queer

Rabbi Dr. Zev Farber responds to Rabbi Fox’s teshuvah with two additional supportive elements drawn from the same sources, utilizing the Rivan and even the Rambam to enhance his stance.

Rachael Fried

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Teshuvah

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D’var Torah; Halakhah; Teshuvah; Action; Anatomy; Discrimination; Feminism; Framing; Gender; Identity; Inclusion; Language; LGBTQ; Personality; Queer; Responsibility; Sexuality; Shame; Society; Tzniut

Rachael Fried responds to Rabbi Fox’s teshuvah by holding space for both the complexity of gender and the double standard of loophole application.

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Teshuvah

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D’var Torah; Halakhah; Teshuvah; Acceptance; Comparative texts; Complexity; Debate; Framing; Identity; LGBTQ; Parallel; Queer; Responsibility; Sexuality; Silence; Stress

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper responds to Rabbi Fox’s teshuvah systematically and assesses what it means to accept an incredibly painful situation.

Rabbi Avi Weiss, in Jewish News Syndicate

April 3, 2023

Dvar Torah / Holidays / Pesach

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D’var Torah; Holidays; Pesach; Community; Conflict; Debate; Family; Love; Politics; Seder; Yom Kippur

Sitting down to the seder can feel like the inevitable wait for a political debate. Rabbi Avi Weiss provides ideas to diffuse the situation and ways to prevent conflict to begin with.

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