Aharey Mot: Comparing Conservative and Reconstructionist Approaches in Dealing with Leviticus' Prohibition on Male-Male Sex By Syd Nestel

Parashat Aharey Mot 
Leviticus 16:1 - 18:30

In this dvar-Torah Syd Nestel makes an in depth comparison of Reconstructionist and Conservative approaches to the prohibitions against homosexuality written in Leviticus 18 and 20. The article ends:
So let us continue to read Aharei Mot-Kedsohim and celebrate and build our theology on verses like "love thy neighbour as thy self." And let us not be afraid to read verses, like those banning homosexual sex, and say: "This is indeed what our ancestors thought to be wrong, but they where mistaken, and this is no longer our view."


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Syd NestelAdded April 16, 2007
Syd Nestel is an active member of Congregation Darchei Noam in Toronto, Canada.
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