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Goyim Do Not Derail - Blog Posts
What is hateful to yourself, do not do to your fellow man. That is the whole Torah; the rest is just commentary.
Hillel the Elder
“I knew only one other person who was queer, and that person – G-d – was much, much queerer than I was.”
— Joy Ladin, “The Soul of the Stranger: Reading G-d and Torah from a Transgender Perspective”
“In Jewish thought, a sin is not an offense against God, an act of disobedience. A sin is a missed opportunity to act humanly. The verb to sin in Hebrew is also used in the sense of ‘missing the target.’ When God created us free to choose between good and bad, He also gave us the capacity to know when we had chosen wrongly”
— Harold Kushner, To Life!: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking (via huzzahitsthedoctor)
Traditionally religious people often claim that the Torah requires them to exclude, exile, or condemn transgender people, but the Torah never commands or encourages that kind of behavior. None of the Torah's laws requires the Israelite community to treat people whose appearance or behavior doesn't fit binary norms as defiled or defiling.
— Joy Ladin, “The Soul of the Stranger: Reading G-d and Torah from a Transgender Perspective”