Ariel Ya’akov Dunat (they/them)

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Ariel (they/them) is a senior rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Outside of JTS, they are a steering committee member for Svara's Trans Halakha Project, also serving as a member of the Teshuva Writing Collective, with whom they are preparing the publication of their second teshuvah. They are a certified shochet, having finished a two-year program of study in Jerusalem and the US. Ariel is a Midwestern native, coming from Ohio where they studied French and Comparative Religious Studies. They hope to receive their MA in Halakhah, one of their passions alongside theology.

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There are various ways to look at God’s revelation at Sinai, including as a “coming out.” Read Ariel Dunat’s JTS senior sermon on this.

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Life exists in relation

If we try to look past the tangible, if we focus on the other, in relationship, we can come to see the Divine, even if only for a second.

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Ariel Barry discusses Shavuot and receiving the Torah from Sinai. What does it mean to be “MiSinai”, from Sinai and how can we relate today?

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