By Rachel Barenblat
Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, well known for her blog, “The Velveteen Rabbi,” writes an ode to trees in honor of Tu B’Shvat, which begins at sunset on January 19.
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By Rachel Barenblat
Jewish attitudes about sex and sexuality span a wide spectrum. For liberal Jews, sex and religion may seem unrelated; for those who follow the family-purity laws, the relationship between sex and Jewish tradition may seem set in stone. But neither of these stances takes the whole picture into account. Judaism, as Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg writes in the introduction to “Passionate Torah,” is both an earthy religion of the body and a distressingly patriarchal institution. “Jewish sexuality,” she writes, “is nothing if not complex.”
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