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5783/2023
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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.
5783/2023
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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.
5783/2023
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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.
5783/2023
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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.
5783/2023
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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.
5783/2023
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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.
5783/2023
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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.
5783/2023
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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.
5783/2023
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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.
April 3, 2023
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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.