In Sefer Keddusha, the famed rabbi Maimonides forbids women to "rub against each other" because this is what women did in Egypt. In her teachings, the contemporary rabbi Jill Hammer teaches that queer Jews are able to locate ourselves in the prohibitions against us as proofthat we, too, have existed throughout history. This text study offers space for LGBTQIA+ affiliated Jews to meet to learn the stories of how our elders have navigated queer Jewish life, while also dreaming together about the potential possibilities we will create. 

Emily Rogal is a third year Master of Divinity candidate at Harvard Divinity School. She is a trained birth and postpartum doula, mikveh guide, and a Jewish educator invested in cultivating Jewish spaces which center reflection, joy, and justice. She spends the majority of her free time drinking oat milk lattes, hunting down weird midrashim (rabbinic fanfiction), and finding her perpetually lost water bottle.