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Sarah laughs and calls herself “dried up.” Abraham next goes to the doomed “wicked” cities of Sodom and Gemorrah, to save his nephew Lot and family. Three strangers predict that Sarah, Abraham’s post-menopausal wife, will bear a son. It’s telling if you’re uncomfortable reading these words, and it’s really telling if spiritual life hid from you parts of Vayera’s basic plot. All in one paresha, we encounter the gendered value of personhood, women’s value as incubators, non-consensual sex, incest, domination and more. Vayera is a “difficult text” that magnetizes sexual and gender inequality. Let’s talk about the contexts that embed “difficult texts.” Let’s talk about this week’s Torah portion ( Vayera ). It’s not blasphemy to say so, any more than it’d be unscientific to call electromagnetism what it is. This democratic model of building – to keep creating new Jewish ideas, designs and structures – is especially poignant amidst Judaism’s so-called “difficult texts.” Like magnets to charged metal, “difficult texts” attract interpretations and approaches charged with the socioeconomic and political contexts in which they arose. Jonathan Krasner of Brandeis University describes about the history of Jewish education in North America, isn’t blasphemously not-Jewish. A dynamically democratic approach to building the Jewish future, as Dr. If modernity teaches any model for building the Jewish future, it’s a horizontal inclusive model, not a vertical one. We needn’t only repeat and extend what came before – like we’re playing Jewish Jenga and any deviation left or right would cause Judaism to fall. Today as a career Jewish educator, I’ve discovered that the vertical model of my elementary school poster is wrong. We learned that anything else would be blasphemous, as if history’s gedolim (great ones) were Judaism’s foundation and, if we’re not careful, we might knock Judaism over. We could add our own voices, so long as we accept past beliefs and interpretations. We learned that we stand on the shoulders of scholars and sages who preceded us.
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It depicted the judges, the prophets and monarchs, Talmud’s rabbis, Medieval scholars like Maimonides and Rashi, up through history to the present era. The poster displayed a Biblical Moses at the bottom, then Joshua (Moses’ successor) standing on his shoulders, then one leader atop another’s shoulders.
#Sexual jenga series#
Part of a yearlong series about builders and building the Jewish future.Īs a young girl in Orthodox Jewish elementary school, I vividly remember an educational poster in my classrooms.