Tamar Ross

That is code switching, and I think that is so exciting.

Here's a quote from Professor Tamar Ross, who is a professor of Jewish philosophy and a pioneering religious feminist leader in the Orthodox Jewish world.

Tamar Ross wrote, "If the Torah is to bear a message for all generations, its revelation must be a cumulative process, a dynamic unfolding that reveals its ultimate significance only through time." So think about that.

This is a feminist Jewish woman thinker in the twentieth century telling us that after generations and centuries of patriarchy, women do not count in our quorum, they cannot become rabbis.

They are beloved property of men.

But since the twentieth century, feminists are changing how we think about our laws and leaders, about our family lives and the important spiritual, political, religious role that women can have.

And so Tamar Ross and others teach us to talk back to the Torah.

At some point I'll talk about how the Torah also includes verses that are homophobic, and someone like me who is openly gay looks at the Torah and reads that I am worthy of an execution because I'm guilty of an abomination.