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i think something a lot of gentiles don’t get – especially gentiles from christian cultural backgrounds or who live in christian-dominated places – is like… theres a vastly different attitude to texts in judaism than there is in christianity. like. the obvious example here is talmud and rabbinical debates and etc, like you can point out “well rabbis have been dissecting the tanakh into teensy little pieces for millennia” which is true. but also, like

just regular jews! we are meant to read the entire torah every year. there is a different portion assigned to each day. even in non-orthodox synagogues, usually (in my experience), we discuss the week’s portion on friday before shabbat or saturday afterwards. we talk about it. 

here’s an example: you wanna know who the first person who ever said “hey, isn’t it kind of fucked up that in exodus, pharaoh is always willing to let the israelites go, and then the hebrew god “hardens his heart”, making him refuse?”

it was a jew.

the relevant rabbinical discussions about that and other issues in exodus are PRINTED RIGHT IN many haggahdot  

this is… the backbone of our religion and culture. “israel” means “wrestles with god”. literally. 

if youre ever like “wow i bet noones ever told this PROBLEMATIC JUDEO-CHRISTIAN SOCIETY OF OURS about how FUCKED UP A CERTAIN BIT OF THE ~OLD TESTAMENT~ IS!” you are wrong someone has indeed told society about that and it was jews. in fact we are probably telling someone about that right now. as we speak

and as an example: if there’s part of the hebrew bible where youre like “wow… this sounds super sexist” (or whatever), let me tell you, jewish women have been writing books about that part? for decades if not centuries. like… trust me

“hey wanna hear my opinion about something fucked up in our holy texts?” - jews, like, all the time, since forever