Category: Disability
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What Happens When Illusions Fall Away?
Disability Torah for Yom Kippur 5786 We are approaching Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. This day is a time for soul-searching, teshuvah and, as I write in my piece for The Disability Torah Project, a invitation to honest not-knowing. At its essence, Yom Kippur invites us to…
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Torah on the Body
A Commentary on Parashat Ve’etchanan for the Disability Torah Project. August 4, 2025 Conceptualizing tefillin as a physical signpost reminding us of the vastness and incomprehensible field of divine love with which we are loved collectively and individually is rather new for me.
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We All Were At Sinai: The Transformative Power of Inclusive Torah
Why inclusiveness is crucial to Torah and Judaism. A talk given on May 29, 2025 for Laasok: the Liberal Bet Midrash in advance of Shavuot.
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Holy Sparks
A conversation with Saul Kaye I am pleased to share today a link to my conversation with Saul Kaye as part of the Holy Sparks podcast. In this wide-ranging conversation, Saul and I talk about my spiritual journey and commitment to Jewish contemplative practice amongst other things. You can find…
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The Value of Human Dignity
This talk was originally given on September 16, 2024 and hosted by Laasok.
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Disability as Beloved by G-d
Read Rabbi Tuchman’s article in Lilith Magazine, published on August 16, 2024. Read the full article here.
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Rabbi Tuchman Featured on Judaism Unbound with Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg
Lauren Tuchman is a sought-after spiritual leader and educator whose work focuses on disability access and inclusion. Ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2018, she is, as far as she is aware, the first blind woman in the world to enter the rabbinate. She joins Dan Libenson and Lex…
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman 