[Jewish] An Amazing Transgender Spiritual Journey

[Steven Nathan]

Click Here for Article 
<http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2010/2010-02/201002-Joy_Ladin.html>

I wanted to share this piece with all the various 
religious/spiritual/queer lists to which I subscribe.

This is incredibly moving memoir of a transgender woman's personal 
spiritual journey as represented by two visits to Jerusalem and the 
Kotel (Western Wall). First as a man with his wife and children and then 
as a woman on her own. I feel blessed to know the author who is a member 
of the Jewish Community of Amherst, David's (my partner's) synagogue.

I also know that Joy, the author, would be happy to come to Hampshire to 
talk about her experience.  Just contact me if you'd like me to put you 
in touch with her.

Shalom/Salaam/Peace,

spn


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Steven P. Nathan

Campus Rabbi

Hampshire 
College                                                           

Office of Spiritual Life -- Box SA

Amherst, MA 01002

 

Phone: (413) 559-5282

Fax: (413) 559-5663

snathan at hampshire.edu

 

/"The more deeply immersed I became in the thinking of the prophets, the 
more powerfully it became clear to me what the lives of the prophets 
sought to convey: that morally speaking there is no limit to the concern 
one must feel for the suffering of human beings. /

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/"It also became clear to me that in regard to cruelties committed in 
the name of a free society, some are guilty, all are responsible."/

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-Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

 

 

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