Gay hasidic jews
The liberal Jewish movements have undergone dramatic shifts in their approach to gay, lesbian and transgender Jews in the past two decades, but among the Orthodox the changes own been far less dramatic — and in many quarters, virtually nonexistent.
Two seemingly clear biblical denunciations of homosexual sex, as well as the corpus of rabbinic commentaries and legal codes based on those verses, limit how far Orthodox Judaism, marked by its fidelity to traditional understandings of Jewish statute, or halacha, can move on this subject.
Though several attempts have emerged in recent years to lend more sustain to Orthodox Jews experiencing homosexual desires and make the community more merciful and welcoming toward them, all these efforts stop brief of sanctioning same-sex attracted relationships.
Theological and Legal Limitations
Across the spectrum of Orthodox apply, the consensus view is that male lover sex and marriage are inconsistent with Jewish tradition. The objection is rooted in two verses in Leviticus that expressly prohibit a man from lying with another dude “as one lies with a woman,” an act described as an “abomination” that is punishable by death. Though the prohibition is understood
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In a small room in Jerusalem, Hasidic men are rocking back and forth, clutching their prayer books to their chest, rubbing ice cubes on their foreheads. They have appear to the Atonement Ceremony for Sexual Sins, an ancient ritual, to repent for harboring sexual thoughts, to cool their passions. Most attend the ceremony to repent for the sin of lusting after women — but a few atone for lusting after men.
Trembling Before G-D, an 84-minute documentary movie by Sandi Simcha DuBowski, introduces viewers to the troubled, conflicted world of gay and lesbianOrthodox Jews who must reconcile their sexual identity with their religious beliefs. Alienated from their families and shunned by their c
Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ+ Issues: Orthodox Judaism
There is no primary governing body but despite the different forms it has taken they all share some common principles of faith and a deep loyalty to Halacha or Jewish law. Halacha is a code of behavior that covers a vast range of ethical rules, social mores, ritual practices and spiritual disciplines. A quarter of the medieval code, the Shulchan Aruch, which to this day guides Orthodox Jews, focuses on sexual exercise and marriage. Judaism celebrates creation as an integral good. Consequently, Jewish statute does not disparage sex. However, Orthodox tradition only supports heterosexual relations and only within the context of heterosexual marriage.
Orthodox tradition is religiously organized and socially structured by biblical and rabbinic teachings on fixed gender roles, creating separate religious duties and always separate spaces for men and women during worship. Orthodox Judaism believes that the Torah is of divine origin and represents the word of G-d. Jewish sacred texts, commonly understood in the Christian world as the Old Testament, include the Five Books of Moses, (referred to as the Torah), the P
My secret life as a gay ultra-Orthodox Jew
Once you are pregnant that toddler becomes both a hostage and your hostage taker. You are held hostage by your infant. We are expected to have eight or nine children and I kept getting pregnant. My feelings built up inside me until one day I was walking down the street in a little cul-de-sac somewhere. There was so much noise in my top that I started saying "I'm same-sex attracted, I'm gay, I'm gay!" out loud.
It made me perceive like I had to do something about it. Eventually, I told my husband. I assess he already knew I was queer but he'd convinced himself that it was just a latent desire rather than an integral part of my identity.
We still don't know what we are going to do. We have children together and a family set-up that works. If my husband and I separate we would misplace all of that. I think we would all misplace something if we broke apart so I may successfully stay married.
I hope my family can stay together, although I don't know what shape that would seize. People have all kinds of arrangements. Rabbis have diverse ideas than some about how you should keep people together. In a case like mine, instead of trying to