Colourful threads connect small pins across a round slice of wood.

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Standing Again at Sinai

Judith Plaskow

Human beings are fundamentally communal; our individuality is a product of community, and our choices are shaped by our being with others.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Plaskow argues that people aren't self-made loners. Who we are, and what we decide, grows out of the groups we belong to and the people around us. Individuality here is something a community produces, not something that stands apart from it.

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