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Orthodykes Learn Torah: What Does The Torah Say About Being Nonbinary?
Introducing our new four part miniseries!!! The Orthodykes are back, and now we're a sexy yeshiva!
Each episode will feature these four luminaries of the queer Jewish world (Antonia Lassar, Raye Schiller, Leah Forster, Melissa Weisz) and will cover a new Torah question. This week we've decided to stop being so cis, and we're talking nothing but nonbinary! (BTW, apologies for the wonky audio, we're optimizing that for next episode. Thanks bbs.)
And we're giving a huge Yenta thank you to The Queerkeit Initiative for funding this series.
We Yenta about:
- Finding the perfect study partner
- Our younger selves would be dying over this queer torah study
- How does the mishnah talk about nonbinary people?
- The Torah definitions of sex and gender
- Is it important to ask queer Torah questions?
- Vibrators too. Duh.
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Resources:
Understanding the Androgynos Sefaria source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/385624?lang=bi
Terms for gender diversity in classical jewish texts: https://transtorah.org/PDFs/Classical_Jewish_Terms_for_Gender_Diversity.pdf
Androgynos and Tumtum Sefaria source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/113417?lang=bi
Calling non-binary people to the Torah:
https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/calling-non-binary-people-to-torah-honors-cjls-oh-139_3-2022-final.pdf
The Holiness of Twilight by Reuben Zellman: https://www.transtorah.org/PDFs/Holiness_of_Twilight.pdf
Halakha Beyond The Binary by Laynie Soloman: https://svara.org/halakha-beyond-the-binary/
Leah Forster: https://www.instagram.com/leahforster/?hl=en
Melissa Wesiz: https://www.instagram.com/melissaweisz/?hl=en
Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller
Antonia Lassar: https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar
Uncut and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yenta
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
12:55 - How the mishnah defines nonbinary
31:20 - Where do nonbinary people fit into halacha?
42:33 - Kabbalah of nonbinary
46:37 - Queerness of Purim
51:55 - The Holiness of Twilight
58:26 - Final takeaways
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago