ten. Yusuf Come Home

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Bereshit
6. one. Male and Female God Created Them 11
7. two. From Delight to Destruction: The Double-Faced Power of Sex 19
8. three. Going to and Becoming Ourselves Transformation and Covenants in Parashat 24
9. four. Looking Back to Look Forward Parashat Vayera (Genesis 18:1–22:24) 29
10. five. When Gender Varies: A Curious Case of Kere and Ketiv 34
11. six. Esau’s Gender Crossing 38
12. seven. And Jacob Came Out 43
13. eight. Biblical Sex 47
14. nine. Joseph’s Fabulous Technicolor Dreamcoat 53
15. ten. Yusuf Come Home 60
16. eleven. Forgiveness as a Queer Response 64
17. twelve. Uncovering Joseph’s Bones 68
18. Part II. Shemot
19. thirteen. Making Noise for Social Change 75
20. fourteen. Uncircumcized Lips 80
21. fifteen. The Ritual of Storytelling 85
22. sixteen. Into Life: The Humanism of the Exodus 89
23. seventeen. The Necessity of Windows 93
24. eighteen. Laws and Judgments as a “Bridge to a Better World” 98
25. nineteen. Building an Inclusive Social Space 102
26. twenty. When the Fabulous Is Holy 106
27. twenty–one. Mounting Sinai 109
28. twenty-two. Listening to Heart-Wisdom 113
29. twenty-three. A Knack for Design 117
30. Part III. Vayikra
31. twenty-four. Bodily Perfection in the Sanctuary 123
32. twenty-five. HaNer Tamid, dos Pintele Yid v’ha Zohar Muzar: The Eternal Flame, the Jewish Spark, and the Flaming Queer 129
33. twenty-six. Nadav and Avihu and Dietary Laws: A Case of Action and Reaction 135
34. twenty-seven. Nagu’a: Touched by the Divine 140
35. twenty-eight. It’s the Purity, Stupid: Reading Leviticus in Context 145
36. twenty-nine. How Flexible Can Jewish Law Be? 151
37. thirty. Sex in the Talmud: How to Understand Leviticus 18 and 20 157
38. thirty-one. Fear Factor: Lesbian Sex and Gay Men 170
39. thirty-two. Neither Oppress nor Allow Others to Oppress You 174
40. thirty-three. “Less Is More” and the Gift of Rain: The Value of Devaluation in Behukotai and Cixous’s Desire-That-Gives 179
41. Part IV. Bemidbar
42. thirty-four. How to Construct a Community 187
43. thirty-five. From Impurity to Blessing 192
44. thirty-six. Setting the Stage for Pluralistic Judaism 197
45. thirty-seven. Ruach Acheret—Ruach Hakodesh/ Different Spirit—Sacred Spirit 199
46. thirty-eight. Torah and Its Discontents 202
47. thirty-nine. The Healing Serpent: Recovering Long Lost Jewish Fragments 206
48. forty. Between Beast and Angel: The Queer, Fabulous Self 212
49. forty-one. Pinchas, Zimri and the Channels of Divine Will 216
50. forty-two. Going Ahead 220
51. forty-three. Hearing Ancient, Courageous Voices for Justice and Change 224
52. Part V. Devarim
53. forty-four. From Whom Do We Learn History? Why Queer Community Needs Texts More Than Other Communities 231
54. forty-five. Rethinking the Wicked “Son” 235
55. forty-six. Bind These Words 240
56. forty-eight. Setting Ourselves Judges 250
57. forty-nine. To Wear Is Human, to Live—Divine 254
58. fifty. In a New Country 259
59. fifty-one. Embodied Jews 263
60. fifty-two. “Be Strong and Resolute” 267
61. fifty-three. Dor l’Dor 271
62. fifty-four. This Is the Blessing: The “First Openly Gay Rabbi” Reminisces 277
63. Part VI. Holiday Portions
64. fifty-five. The Parade of Families 285
65. fifty-six. What Is Atonement? 290
66. fifty-seven. Strength through Diversity 294
67. fifty-eight. Ad de’lo Yada: Until We Don’t Know the Difference 297
68. fifty-nine. Liberation and Transgender Jews 301
69. sixty. Trance and Trans at Har Sinai 306
70. The New Rabbis: 311
71. Contributors 315
72. Index 323