"Achrei Mot" Print

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Acharei Mot
In this week’s parsha, we are instructed about various forbidden sexual acts and their punishments, including the infamous line:
‎וְאֶ֨ת־זָכָ֔ר לֹ֥א תִשְׁכַּ֖ב מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י אִשָּׁ֑ה תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה הִֽוא׃
And with a man, you shall not lay in the way of laying with a woman. It is an abomination.
What do we do with pieces of Torah that are painful and have come to hurt many people?
The Talmud asks the question, “How do we know that we are not to push aside someone else’s life [to save our own]?” It answers with two simple words, סברא הוא, it is our moral intuition. Meaning that, we don’t need a text to prove it--we know it in our kishkes. A few lines later, Rava adds “Who is to say that your blood is redder than his, that your life is worth more?” The concept of svara or moral intuition is so powerful in Jewish law that it can often override Torah law. When we encounter painful parts of the Torah, how can we bring our svara in conversation with the text? When we do this, we are acting in the way of the Rabbis of the Talmud.