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Fine-Tune Your Spiritual Hearing (Parashat Ki Tavo)

September 08, 2006 | By Maggid Jhos Singer

Media Type(s): Torah Commentary

Textual Source: Deutoronomy

Torah Portion: Ki Tavo

This resource is part of the Torah Queeries collection.

The author explains that this portion tells us that if we are obedient we will be blessed, with the blessings described in one short paragraph, and if we are not obedient we will be cursed. The Torah then unloads pages of orgiastic curses that we will endure for our transgressions, laid out in graphic, gory detail. He argues that standing up as a Jew, whose faith and ways have been seen as “queer” since we began, takes guts and deep self-knowing.

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