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SUMMARY:Bites and Books
DESCRIPTION:July 10\, 2025 (in partnership with Jarc)\nFacilitator: Laura G
 ottlieb\nLoving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subvers
 iveness of Knowing \nOurselves Whole\nby Rabbi Julia Watts Belser\n\n“Wh
 at’s wrong with you?” Scholar\, activist\, and rabbi Julia Watts Belse
 r is all too familiar with this question. What’s wrong isn’t her wheel
 chair\, though—it’s exclusion\, objectification\, pity\, and disdain. 
 Our attitudes about disability have such deep cultural roots that we almos
 t forget their sources. But open the Bible and disability is everywhere. M
 oses believes his stutter renders him unable to answer God’s call. Jacob
 ’s encounter with an angel leaves him changed not just spiritually but p
 hysically. For centuries\, these stories have been told in ways that treat
  disability as a metaphor for spiritual incapacity or as a challenge to be
  overcome. Through fresh and unexpected readings of the Bible\, Loving Our
  Own Bones instead paints a luminous portrait of what it means to be disab
 led and one of God’s beloved. Belser delves deep into sacred literature\
 , braiding the insights of disabled\, feminist\, Black\, and queer thinker
 s with her own experiences as a queer disabled Jewish feminist. She talks 
 back to biblical commentators who traffic in disability stigma and shame. 
 Loving Our Own Bones invites readers to claim the power and promise of spi
 ritual dissent\, and to nourish their own souls through the revolutionary 
 art of radical self-love.\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
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