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How do I justify the choices that I make as I lift up certain strands within Jewish tradition and repudiate others? I have argued that the authority for singling out the self-critical and dissident elements in our textual traditions comes not from the traditions themselves, but rather the new possibilities envisioned and created by the particular communities of solidarity and resistance in which we participate.
— Judith Plaskow, “Authority, Resistance, and Transformation: Jewish Feminist Reflections on Good Sex” in Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World’s Religions (via vladislava)
Reblogged from make believe, not war
Tags: creating new traditions
