shiraglassman:

jewishdyke:

amazing talk on queer readings of talmud. for all lgbt+ jews who are tired of hearing the refutation of being who you are a sin by having goyim say “well we dont refrain from cutting our hair or eating pork anymore, so why should we refrain from being gay?!??” here is the rabbi/bubbe with the explanation you’ve been searching for.

I was expecting this to be a reanalysis of the specific verse targeting m/m sex or whatever but actually it’s totally different, it’s something gentiles really should listen to if they’re willing to spend the 17-18 minutes because one thing I’ve noticed is that many of them don’t seem to realize we have a unique relationship with our own rules and texts. That process of analysis especially doesn’t look like Christian bible study and this talk does a good job of illustrating what it does look like.