I see a bit of Yitz Greenberg's post Holocaust theology in קימו וקבלו. The people in Esther made their choice in the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem, the burning of the Temple, and saving themselves, on their own terms, from a genocidal threat that God pointedly did not intercede to protect them from.
Re: Jew, not by choice: I'm wrestling, too, with identity, how it's (inevitably) thrust on us, and the choices we make to own it. And while I don't want to reduce all conversations to a neo-Marxist analysis of power, I wonder about relative responsibility based on where the identity/ies we are born into fall on that spectrum. How is James Baldwin's conundrum of being Black in America the same/different from mine (e.g.) as a white-skinned Latino Jew in the same country? What choices are there for me to make to make myself *and others* more free? I appreciate you bringing Baldwin's voice into the mix. And for the Torah.
I see a bit of Yitz Greenberg's post Holocaust theology in קימו וקבלו. The people in Esther made their choice in the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem, the burning of the Temple, and saving themselves, on their own terms, from a genocidal threat that God pointedly did not intercede to protect them from.
Re: Jew, not by choice: I'm wrestling, too, with identity, how it's (inevitably) thrust on us, and the choices we make to own it. And while I don't want to reduce all conversations to a neo-Marxist analysis of power, I wonder about relative responsibility based on where the identity/ies we are born into fall on that spectrum. How is James Baldwin's conundrum of being Black in America the same/different from mine (e.g.) as a white-skinned Latino Jew in the same country? What choices are there for me to make to make myself *and others* more free? I appreciate you bringing Baldwin's voice into the mix. And for the Torah.