Trans and Queer centered Judaism

Trans Pride 2023

Reuven went to Seattle Trans Pride planning to make Shabbat with a few friends. Right before the event ze grabbed a large piece of cardboard and wrote "g-d is trans. Shabbat is queer" in rainbow colors. Relaxing in a shady spot with the sign, two challah, and some Manichevitz for kiddush, we ended up with over 36 people making Shabbos together!

Since then we've been crafting trans/queer experiences such as Havdallah Minyan, online zoom dance parties, various learning opportunities, and Pride Mikveh at one of Seattle's LGBTQ+ nude beaches.

Our Spirit

We are a community guided by and centered around the lessons trans Jews are bringing to the greater Jewish world. Jewish mysticism emphasizes a non-dual nature and a non-binary mindset that trans Jews have deep insight into. Through communal connection and embodied Judaism, Tikkun Daat hopes to renew many Jewish sparks.

Our Community

Physically present in the greater Seattle area, Tikkun Daat also offers online options. We are a COVID-cautious community for all Jews, but we center the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community, particularly trans Jews.

Looking for friends, comrades, or chevruta? Want to share some trans Torah? Wishing for more spiritual depths?

Tikkun Daat

Etymology

Tikkun Daat :

Tikkun like Tikkun Olam, carries the meaning of repair but also means to fix, to prepare, to improve. Daat is a kabbalistic notion, a g-d aspect seen through human lens. It is the place of knowledge where our mental efforts - in kabblah Chokhmah and Binah - meet the rest of our body. Often seen as the third eye or consciousness, it also has connotations of connection through communcation.

In Lurianic kabbalah, Da'at is also where the great shattering takes place - one which we humans have a role in repairing.

Olam haBa

It is the modern and post-modern humans’ job to gently, fervently, lovingly reconnect our brains and our bodies - and in doing that reconnect our bodies to the earth, to the land's cycles and animal's presence. The tikkun of Da’at is not just in elevating our individual sparks. It is in elevating the very idea of tikkun for the totality of the world, in rectifying the breaking itself and letting g-d grow with us.

In this global diaspora, many are now even in diaspora from our bodies. Reconnecting our minds to our bodies with love and work will bring about a renewed g-d. Humbling human egos to recognize our animal beauty will bring renewed g-d. These are the divine paths, the netivot kodesh, back into our most human beautiful, changeable divine, quantum physical selfs.