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Shaul Shapira's avatar

"… Along these lines, I would center a more holistic halakhic approach by asking the following questions that center a lesbian woman’s experience and perspective:"

Why does *everything* these people write have to sound like some sort of group therapy session?

At some point, someone is going to write a 'teshuva' permitting driving to a gay shul on shabbos.

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Ash's avatar

"His teshuva is an excellent start, in that it forces the community to grapple with its repercussions."

Nonsense needs no grappling with. The teshuva is a halachic joke. It starts nothing.

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Steven Brizel's avatar

This is what Open Orthodoxy looks like namely a discarding of Halachic norms on any issue

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