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This is what Jewish looks like.

This is what a 40 year old female, blonde rabbi looks like.

I started wearing a tallit and laying tefillin one and a half decades ago. It’s taken me years to get over my internalized judgment as a woman wearing tefillin. /1 Tefillin are a strange and uncomfortable feature of Jewish practice even on the best of days. I’ve had to consciously move myself beyond my own discomfort to own this mitzvah that means so much to me. /2

Thread: how charge of Pharisee is used to delegitimize Judaism. When I was a rabbinical student, was approached by evangelical missionary trying to proselytize me. Told him respectfully that I already have a religion/relationship w/God. He proceeded to argue Hebrew Bible w/me. /1

https://twitter.com/theradr/status/1016076198810652677

I’m naturally curious & open person & happily indulge those who engage me in the marketplace of ideas. But the evangelist wouldn’t back down, despite me telling him I was almost an ordained rabbi. I warned him he would never be able to convert me-didn’t want to waste his time. /2