In her ELI Talk, Rabbi Lappe maps out the long history of traditionally radical “queer” innovation within Judaism, teaches a heart-wrenching passage of Talmud that shows how the Rabbis used svara to create a smarter, more compassionate Torah, and implores all of us to hang onto our queerness and outsiderness in order to become “players” in the next Jewish future.
Find out why this one Queer Jew doesn’t think that an “unrecognizable future” is particularly bad news.