We have a hard road ahead, but not a lonely one. We have each other. And we have the Divine at our side, at our back, and within us.
I have always seen Joseph in the text, winking across the ages, inviting me to explore more fully the shared elements of our experience.
I have been in relationship with Joseph for years — wondering, puzzling, collecting the many hints in Torah that point to some queerness, some difference in Joseph’s gender.
The Book of Esther offers a clue about what it takes to be a leader who risks charging into the breach. When like Queen Esther, we lose ourselves in beauty or in purpose, it is divine Malkhut (majesty) asserting itself. And in that state, there is much we can do.
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