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My efforts eventually became a book released in 2004 and entitled: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd with a male you shall not lie the lyings of a woman, it is an abomination.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rabbinic reading focused this verse on a single act between men, namely, anal intercourse. Lesbian relations are mentioned nowhere in scripture. 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I am<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the man I am, the very man that You<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">created, so must demons of despair<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">attack me now? \u00a0I ask You not to slam<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the closet door; let in a bit of blue,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a bit of red, let in some light, some air.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mincha<\/span><\/i><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I'm not the man the Torah wanted me<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to be, the man my father's prayerbook thought<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I should become. \u00a0You see how shadows caught<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">me when I tried to wear a mask, You see<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they brought a Mirror of Integrity<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and made me see myself. \u00a0They also brought<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">me books from the Closet Printing Press which taught<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">me tenets of eventide theology.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shadows showed me that before I pray<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I need to face the truth about myself.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although I may not be the person who<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recites my father's prayers, although I may<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be someone else, upon my closet shelf<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a prayerbook sits with prayers I write to You.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">III. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ma'ariv<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A closet's path may lead one far away \u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the closet path I'm walking on has led<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">me far away from You. \u00a0Although I've said<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">my prayers today, this doesn't mean I pray,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this doesn't mean I mean the words I say,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it only means I've mouthed the words I've read.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At night I wonder, as I lie in bed,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">if You indeed accept the fact I'm gay.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know of course that I'm a hypocrite,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know that I'm a coward, too. 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Beginning with eating, ending with sex, those most basic of human activities, and covering everything else in between, the Torah now dedicates the final verses of chapter 20 to neatly wrapping up this unit, reminding us of important points that were made along the way, and repeating its central thesis. A literary structure that would make any writing professor proud.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until verse 27 destroys it. \"A man or a woman who has with them an Ov or Yidoni shall surely die, they will be stoned, their blood is upon them.\" A law about fortune telling or necromancy that stuck out like a sore thumb earlier in the chapter, now thumbs itself at the Torah's lovely structure. This is either the work of a drunken editor, or there's something the Torah wants us to learn here.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chapter 20 is full of infractions whose punishment is death, but every single one of them has to do with the violation of a relationship. There is, however, one word which tenuously connects the law forbidding fortune-telling to this theme. When it is first mentioned, in verse 6, the Torah speaks about the one who turn after the Ov or Yidoni \"<\/span><b><i>liznot<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> achareihem<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\" (\u201cgoes astray\u201d). We are familiar with this root in the context of idol worship; idol worship is seen as \"cheating on\" God by being loyal to another deity. But that can't be the meaning here- in this verse, we're not talking about worshipping another god at all, only about using sorcery to find out our future. 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What was the cult of Molech? There are different commentaries and different sorts of evidence from extra-biblical sources. They all seem to involve a father giving over his son to the idol, something which the biblical laws views with extreme severity (verses 1-5).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Hesed<\/em>? It doesn\u2019t sound like hesed. 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