Matthew Lawrence
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389 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Matthew Lawrence’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Whether or not he is is not relevant, right?
Moses comes to God a or God comes to Moses and tells Moses that you're gonna go out on a mission and he says, But I'm slight of tongue and I have a heavy a heavy mouth.
I I can't do it by myself.
And God says, I'm going to accommodate you with your brother Aaron.
And that's a that's a beautiful thing.
Yeah, I'm familiar with with Mr.
Levine's uh with his book.
And he it's a nice book, and he looks at both the the textual tradition that we find in the Bible and also goes to later rabbinic literature to look at Joseph.
And yeah, I think it's fun.
I think if you can also read Joseph as a as a queer figure, mm-hmm uh and a gender and a gender queer non conforming figure as well, using those same texts, which is fun.
But for me it's it's not you know, while he's looking to diagnose Joseph
My kind of reading and how like this entire lens which which
Doctor Rabbi Liz Shane has kind of come up with this idea of reading the Torah through a neurodivergent lens.
Isn't so much about diagnosing people and like looking for evidence, like, uh, look at this piece and this piece and this piece, therefore they must be autistic, but more of how can I read the text?
through the eyes of an autistic person, if I can reimagine them as autistic.
Is there thing if I read it in that way that I might learn from it?
Right?
And
And so yeah, so with Joseph it's definitely possible to read it like that.
And I think there's a lot of people you can read it like that, and I think that's
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