A Creative and Created Being

[Shana A]

June 12, 2010 | 5:48 pm
A Creative and Created Being
Posted by Janelle Eagle

http://www.jewishjournal.com/oy_gay/item/a_creative_and_created_being_20100612/

Last night I had 26 people join me for shabbat dinner. Not just any Shabbat... but a Transgender Shabbat. Not that Shabbat itself was trans (perhaps we welcomed a Sabbath Husband?), but we specifically invited the transgender community and their friends to join JQ International's Trans Inclusion Committee for a potluck and icebreaker discussion of the intersection between Judaism and gender identity.

Rabbi Julie Pelc-Adler led the group in a discussion about terms for gender diversity used in classical Jewish texts including:

[Vicky]

I am not quite ready to convert, but I do know what the word "mitzvah" generally connotes, and this was a mitzvah experience for the writer.  The full story was not quite what I got from the title alone, but the party must have been great.

Although the "official" story is that humans were created in "G's" image, all too often I meet fellow Christians and some Jews who seem to have created (a) "G" in their lives and opinions in an image they want to see, and not what I suspect is really what the big boss is.