
Steven Greenberg
Steven Greenberg (born June 19, 1956) is an American rabbi with a smiḥah from Yeshiva University (RIETS). Greenberg is executive director of Eshel, whose mission is to create community and acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Jews and their families in Orthodox communities. He is also a Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Diversity Project at CLAL – the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, and the author of the book Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition which received the Koret Jewish Book Award for Philosophy and Thought in 2005. The first openly gay Orthodox Jewish rabbi, he came out as gay in an article in the Israeli newspaper Maariv in 1999. He also contributed to the acclaimed 2001 documentary by Sandi Simcha DuBowski 'Trembling Before G-d.'"
Before the Aliyot | Parashat Aḥarei Mōt | 🌐 Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20th) | 🌐 Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31st)
אבן בוחן Even Boḥan | gender identity | inclusion | LGBTQIA+ | Needing Vocalization | North America | Prayers of redress | same-sex relationships | sexual attraction | פרשת אחרי מות parashat Aḥarei Mot | shelo asani ishah | תחינות teḥinot | transgender prayer | 14th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 51st century A.M. | 58th century A.M.
Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Nir Krakauer (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
תפילה קודם קריאת פרשת אחרי מות | Prayer to be Recited Before the Reading of Parashat Aḥarei Mōt, by Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Contributed by Steven Greenberg | ❧
A prayer to recognize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identifying folk before reading Parshat Aḥarei Mot (Leviticus 16:1–18:30) in the synagogue. . . .