2 Queers 4 Questions

Chanukah... oh, Chanukah. What a joyful bundle of contradictions. The minor holiday with a major cultural profile. The festival of lights in the darkest of times. The insurgent anti-assimilationist celebration that turned into an imitation of a certain keystone holiday of the Xtian empire. You may think you know this holiday, but let's take a closer look.

Our four questions for Chanukah:

1. Who is the enemy and how do we fight them/it?

2. What ruins is it time for us to rededicate?

3. Which miracle? / Where do we want to look for our miracles?

4. What darkness are we hoping to light? / What do we do with darkness, what do we do with light?

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Okay now we're really into the deep-cut holidays. The last of the high holidays is the most mysterious, when we finish reading the Torah, pray for rain and dance like mad.

Our questions:

1. Why is there a holiday about nothing?

2. What happens at the end of the Torah?

3. Have you ever seen the rain? / What’s rain got to do with it?

4. Why do we dance?

It's Sukkot! Temporary dwellings, agricultural prop-work, tons of joy, a sprinkle of nihilism, rubbing our difference in the devil's face. Learn about the B-side of the High Holidays. We surprised ourselves with this one and how thematically juicy it is. And it turned out to be a surprisingly emotional episode, too. Join us?

The Queers (as always): Agnes Borinsky & Ezra Furman

The Questions (rather minimalist, like a Sukkah):

1. What do we build?

2. What do we do?

3. Why is Kohelet so emo?

4. Who's invited, and why?

Yom Kippur. So intense. Drop that bagel and get repenting. The 2 Queers take on the holiest day of the year. We get into the weeds real fast with this one, but hang on because just beyond the weeds is where the good stuff is to be found.

Our questions:

1. Is Yom Kippur a solemn or a joyful day?

2. What does fasting do?

3. What's the relationship between personal reckoning and communal reckoning?

4. What do we learn from Jonah?

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HAPPY NEW YEAR y'all, it's our Rosh Hashanah episode and it is a sweet one and a good one. Pass the honey and judge us mercifully, it's the beginning of a new calendar year. (Or is it????)

Our four questions for Rosh Hashanah map on to the four major names of the holiday:

1. Why do we have a Jewish calendar? / Rosh HaShanah, head of the year

2. What does a shofar do? / Yom T'ruah, day of the shofar-blowing

3. What and how are we remembering? / Yom HaZikaron, day of remembrance

4. What do we do with guilt? / Yom HaDin, day of judgment

Please enjoy, and hey - feel free to send any reactions, comments, corrections, interesting additions, drashot, etc., to [email protected]. Big blessings from us to you for a sweet new year. <3 Ezra & Agnes

Our first proper episode is here, and it's about the month of Elul, in which we get super quiet and introspective and everyone wonders what is going on with us. It's a month to prepare for the High Holidays and to focus on self-assessment, repentance, repair, relationships.

Our Four Questions for Elul:

1. What is teshuvah and how do we do it?

2. Is being trans a kind of teshuvah? / Is doing teshuvah a kind of transness?

3. Is teshuvah subversive?

4. How is God involved?

Welcome to 2 Queers 4 Questions! In which we ask four new questions about each Jewish holiday. This is our introductory episode, which hopefully explain where we're coming from, what we're trying to do and why.