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But G-d Said No: Why Moses Couldn’t Enter the Promised Land, and What The LGBT Community Can Learn From It (Parashat Vaetechanan)

July 23, 2010 | By Stephanie Silberstein

Media Type(s): Torah Commentary

Textual Source: Deutoronomy

Torah Portion: Vaetchanan

This resource is part of the Torah Queeries collection.

The author discusses the pain of Moses not being allowed to enter the Promised Land and what lessons LGBTQ people might learn from this. She writes that queer people have stories of “Promised Lands” of heterosexuality that we asked God to be let into that, thankfully, God said no. She continues, making further parallels between Moses and LGBTQ people, and arguing for self-acceptance.

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