Ta Shma

Parashat VaYechi – Uniformity and Diversity


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Ethan Tucker. Left-handedness and Halakhah. We explore a range of sources that discuss the proper behaviors of left-handed people in various rituals. At the heart of these texts, and the debates surrounding them, is an implicitly shared question: When do we understand the law to demand uniformity, even at the price of repressing difference and exclusion? And when do we understand the law to refract itself through the lens of human diversity?
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