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A Kavanah — Directing our Hearts and Minds: A Declaration of Intention that we bring to the reading of Leviticus 18 on the Afternoon of Yom Kippur

By Rabbi Victor Reinstein

Topic(s): Jewish Law, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Media Type(s): Article or Document, Torah Commentary

Kavanah (intention) to be read before reading Leviticus 18 on Yom Kippur, addressing the fact that this chapter contains the Torah's enumerations of prohibited sexual relationships. The author interprets the prohibition against male homosexuality as “to refer in context to a power relationship between non-equals of the same sex.”

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