Careercow Shuli Elisheva Zevin / Samantha Elisheva Zerin / Shmuel Azriel Zerin / Samuel Elliot Zerin / CreativeShuli.com / @ShuliElisheva - "Orthodox Jewish" MTF, Yiddish lyricist, amateur Talmud scholar, Shlomo Shekelstein lookalike

Opticana · Dec 30, 2021

"Which oath is an oath taken in vain? It is when one takes an oath to deny that which is known to people to be true, for example, one says about a stone column that it is made of gold, or about a man that he is a woman, or about a woman that she is a man." ( Mishna Shevuot 3:8 )

"Dilation 3x/day isn’t always fun, but I’m reconnecting with Jewish liturgy about G-d’s creation of the human body (asher yatsar) and soul (elokai neshama), which I sing while dilating. It turns the painful dilation into an act of divine partnership and spiritual affirmation." (Shuli Elisheva Zerin, Dec 6 2021)
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UPDATE 03/02/22: Subject discovered the existence of the thread and had a meltdown.

There are a lot of MTFs featured on the farms, but rarely do we encounter one who not only ticks off all of the classic AGP boxes, but also claims to be a practicing Orthodox Jew. Sure, any troon can lecture you how sex isn't a binary or why a gaping wound that requires dilation for the rest of their lives is a miracle of modern medicine - but can they do it while (mis)quouting the Talmud at you, or singing their horrific Yiddish transgender Disney parodies? This is where Shuli Elisheva Zerin enters the picture.

Introduction

Overview

Shuli's description of his life so far (spoilered for length):

I grew up in Indiana, in a very non-Jewish area. Actually, there was a sizable Jewish community in Indianapolis – and most of the Jewish kids went to the private Jewish school. As a result, my parents were afraid that there would be virtually no Jews in the public schools and non-Jewish kids would grow up having never met a Jew before. My parents jokingly called us “Ambassadors for the Jewish People” (no pressure!

) and sent us to the public schools.

My dad’s dad (who recently turned 101!) is a classic reform rabbi, and my mom, who was raised Conservative, had a lot of Chassidic extended family. So they “met in the middle” (so to speak) and raised us Conservative, but at a Reconstructionist synagogue.

Judaism was a big part of my identity and life as a kid. My family observed Shabbat and kept kosher – not completely, but both were very strong values for me. II faced a lot of anti-semitism at school, but also, just the fact of my being there really helped people to understand and relate to Jews as human beings. I think about that a lot today, when I write so much and so publicly on social media about being a trans woman. Visibility matters. I learned that as a kid.

I became gradually more observant in high school and college, drawing on the deep love of Shabbos and kashrus that my parents had instilled in me, which was really more the process of becoming myself as I gained more independence from my parents. Actually, in hindsight, I think it was partly my way of further deluding myself into thinking I was really a cisgender man. I wanted to be “the nice Jewish boy” I thought everyone expected (spoiler: it’s not what people expected!) so I grew a massive beard, went to yeshiva in Israel, started wearing tsitsit, etc.

Then I had a mini crisis. I spent a few months at a male-only yeshiva in Jerusalem and, honestly, I loved the learning, but I hated being in a male-only space. I had no idea why, but egalitarianism was very important to me (and still is), so then I went to the Conservative Yeshiva (co-ed) where I met a girl and got engaged after 10 weeks. But even there, I was unhappy. I felt like I didn’t belong in any one movement; I admired them all, and I hated them all. So I started to just call myself a Jew. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Got married in 2011, my wife became a conservative rabbi, and I became a “rebbitser” — “the rabbi’s husband.” (Now we're divorced, pending some final paperwork, after 10 years of marriage.)

So much to say about being the rabbi’s spouse and all the gender issues along with it!

Over the past 5 years or so, I grew increasingly disillusioned with the world, which I now realize coincided with the onset of serious gender dysphoria and bathroom anxiety. I became disillusioned with academia. I became disillusioned with the medical field. I became disillusioned with Zionism. I became disillusioned with the very concept of objective truth, with the rigid structure of binaries, and with the infallible authority of academic scholarship. I stopped praying daily, stopped wearing a kippah, and questioned the existence of G-d and my sense of belonging in the Jewish people.

And then my egg cracked, and by the summer of 2019 I’d realized I’m a trans woman and my whole world simultaneously shattered and made SO MUCH SENSE. Incidentally, I’m apparently the first person ever to come out as a trans woman while married to a synagogue’s rabbi, so the Jewish Telegraphic Agency ran a story about me and it was translated into 5 languages and basically I had no privacy.

Now I call myself Orthodox, which seems right now the best-fitting label for me, and I actually find the binary gender structure very validating – I’m treated intentionally as a woman! So I’m actually, oddly, finding a lot of spiritual meaning and satisfaction in sitting on the women's side of the mekhitsa, etc.. But gender egalitarianism is still very important to me, as a matter of principle. I hope that someday I’ll feel comfortable wearing tallit/teffillin/kippah, reading Torah, etc again, but right now it just causes me so much anxiety about being misgendered and reminds me of my days as a “nice Jewish boy.” Life’s complicated, you know? But I’m shomer shabbos and keep strictly kosher, and Jewish spirituality, practice, and values flow through my blood.

So that's my answer, "al regel achas" (on one foot), to the question of my Jewish background. Obviously, there's a lot more to say. But, you know... I could write a book about it. :-)

TLDR:
Raised in a non-Orthodox family.
Attended an Orthodox yeshiva in Israel (Shapell's) for men from a non-Orthodox background.
Left because he didn't like the fact that it was a sex-segregated space (alert TERFs may spot a foreshadowing of future developments at this point)
Attended the Conservative yeshiva in Jerusalem and met his wife there.
Wife became the rabbi of a Conservative synagogue in Providence and they had a child.
Trooned out.
Divorced by his wife.
Identifies as Orthodox now, dealing with the aftermath of chopping his dick off, mostly by e-begging and oversharing on social media.

Marriage, Trooning and Divorce

As mentioned, Shuli met his wife while they were studying at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. She agreed to marry him after only ten weeks of dating (which was not a great decision), and would eventually become an assistant rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Providence, RI. A decade of a seemingly successful marriage and the birth of a child followed. Then, after several years of sneaking into womens' restrooms and therapists telling him that his delusions were heckin' valid, Shuli decided to troon out in 2019:

“Over the past several years, Sam has been exploring Sam’s gender identity,” read a message sent to the congregation from Samantha and her wife, Rachel. “This has been a journey for both of us, full of introspection, learning, and growth. Through this journey, we have come to realize that, although Sam was raised as a boy, she is in fact a woman, and she is ready to begin living her life publicly as such.”

His wife appears to have initially been supportive of his transition, as was the synagogue, which even had a "non-binary" restroom added to accommodate him:

At Temple Emanu-El, where Rachel Zerin works, her wife’s transition has helped push the synagogue to be more inclusive, said its senior rabbi, Michael Fel.

“For years, I think we’ve tried being a place that’s open and welcoming and accepting of everyone, so I think the community was sort of primed for when she made her announcement — a lot of people said OK,” he said. “We understood that’s part of the people who are in our community, so I don’t think there were any challenges. But I think it did heighten a desire in our congregation for us to reevaluate bathrooms and reevaluate accessibility issues throughout the building.”

Though Temple Emanu-El has a gender-neutral bathroom, the leadership is in the process of adding an additional one in order to accommodate those who may not feel comfortable going to the men’s or women’s rooms — something that in the past was true for Samantha Zerin.

Shuli's wife eventually decided that she didn't want to spend the rest of her life with a man who thought it was a good idea to give himself a few dozen extra circumcisions, and they divorced in 2020. The actual divorce proceedings were exactly what you'd expect if a delusional tranny who considered himself a Talmudic authority got divorced:

Oh, goodness, yes. It was so complicated and painful. But we're religiously divorced now.

There are multiple positions here.

One is that I neither need to nor am able to give a gett, because I am a woman, and women don't give a gett. In this case, it is unclear whether my ex would be chained as an agunah or not.

Another is that I do need to give a gett, under the assumption that I am simply a man in a dress.

Another is that I need to give a gett, because we were married under the assumption I'm her husband, but that I should do so as a woman, because I'm actually a woman.

Another is that no gett is needed, because we were married under false pretenses of my being a man.

Another is that no gett is needed, because the "husband" my wife married no longer exists.

Another is that no gett is needed, because we are a same-sex female couple, and women don't give a gett.

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It's so complicated. I talked with a bunch of rabbis and my ex (also a rabbi) and did a lot of reading and thinking and soul-crunching myself to come up with a solution that seems to cover as many bases as possible.

Our goal was to cover all interpretive bases, so to speak, so that no matter one's position on transgender people in a divorce, our divorce would be accepted by as many Jewish authorities as possible.

So, here's what I did.

I authorized two getts, one that identifies me as "ben" (son of my parents) and the other that identifies me as "bat" (daughter of my parents). On both of the getts, I'm identified as "Shuli Elisheva." But on one of them, I'm called Shuli Elisheva bat..... (with female pronouns) and on the other, Shuli Elisheva ben...... (with male pronouns). And on both getts, my former name Shmuel Azriel is listed among all the names I've previously been known by.

It was so painful for me to go before a Zoom court of male rabbis and identify myself not only as the wife, but also as the husband. But it's the right thing to do, morally, to ensure that my soon-to-be-ex will be entirely free from our marriage, as far as Jewish law is concerned.

And so the gett was written, delivered, and accepted by my ex, and we are now Jewishly divorced.

By the way, in classic creepy AGP fashion, he stole his troon name from the gf he became:

Shuli's ex-wife, Rabbi Rachel Zerin:

Article from Times of Israel about trooning out | Archive

In His Own Words

Shuli has helpfully laid out much of his life story and religious thought in an ongoing series he writes for Unorthoboxed (the latest in a long line of mediocre and inconsequential Jewish feminist web magazines). There are five parts as of the time of writing, and they involve a large amount of (literal) insane Talmudic sperging, so bear with me.

The first article deals with the background to his transition. We learn that in common with most AGPs, Shuli's decision to remove his Hebrew National was the result of a deep seated desire to use the womens' restroom:

One day, five years earlier, I got off a plane in Detroit. As I walked to the baggage area, I passed by the bathrooms.
“I should go in the women’s room,” I thought to myself.
“WHAT?!” my thoughts continued. “Why would I think that? I’m a man, not a woman. Why should I go in the women’s room?” I shook my head and kept walking.
But then it happened again, and again, and again; every time I walked past a women’s bathroom, I’d think to myself, “I should go in there. WHAT?! That’s crazy! Am I crazy? I’m a man, not a woman!”
And then things got weirder. I’d be sitting in a
stall in the men’s room and then panic that I’d gone into the women’s room by mistake. I’d open the stall door to check for urinals, a sign I was in the right place, and sigh with relief.
Soon, I would panic every time I entered a public bathroom, even before I’d made it to the toilets. I’d turn around and walk outside to double-check that the sign said “MEN” not “WOMEN.” Eventually, I wouldn’t even make it inside – I’d have one hand on the door – before turning around and checking the sign, twice, thrice, sometimes four times, just to be sure I wasn’t accidentally going in the women’s bathroom.
Why? Was I losing my mind? There was no explanation. It made no sense. Nowadays, when people ask how I know I’m a woman and not simply a man with feminine interests, I tell them about my bathroom anxiety. Why did I crave, for years, to use the women’s bathroom? And why did I panic, for years, every time I entered a men’s room? Bathrooms have nothing to do with gender roles or stereotypes. Nothing to do with aesthetics. Nothing to do with hobbies or interests. It was a feeling deep inside me – a gut feeling telling me that I belonged in the women’s room, not the men’s room.

What really sealed the deal for him was that he liked playing as Peach in Mario Kart:

And then, in 2018, when I was 31 years old, that gut feeling finally told me what I’d been so afraid to admit: I am transgender. It was a normal, sunny day at our family’s timeshare in Florida. We were at a resort with a fancy pool, enjoying our last day of sunshine before returning to our wintery home in New England. Off in a corner, next to the gift shop, stood two cardboard sculptures of a cowboy and a cowgirl, with the faces cut out so tourists could take silly selfies.
My wife said, “Why don’t you take our toddler over, so I can take a fun photo of you two?” So I did, with a mischievous grin, and stuck my head through the cowgirl’s face. Wouldn’t that be funny, I thought, to have a photo of a cowgirl
with a massive beard?
“Come on!” my wife reprimanded me, with a tone of annoyance. “Stop fooling around! Can’t you be serious for once?”
So I obediently switched to the cowboy. And then it suddenly dawned on me; why had I pretended to be the cowgirl? I began to think back on recent memories of arguing with my wife over who got to be Princess Peach in video games, and my recent infatuation with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Over the next few weeks, I was lost in thought, wondering, for the first time in my life, if I might be a transgender woman.

The second article discusses Shuli's relationship with his self-declared Orthodox Jewish faith:

Now, two years later, I am far more confident with my lot. I have come to understand Judaism as not only permitting but sanctifying, and even commanding, my gender transition. I feel more connected with my Jewish heritage than I ever have before. I have found so many Orthodox transgender friends and role models. With my rabbi’s fullest blessing, I daven on the women’s side at our local modern Orthodox synagogue, lead children’s services on holidays and Shabbat, and use the women’s bathroom. I am even, dare I say it, proud to be living life openly as an Orthodox Jewish transgender woman.

We also get a great crossover between Shuli and another Jewish troon, Abby Stein:

Stein originally hails from the Satmar Hasidic community, which is a pretty cowish place in and of itself. Abby may have gotten rid of his dick, wife, and religious observace, but he held on to the Satmar anti-zionist ideology, and now spends his time shilling BDS on Twitter. Since Stein was a rabbi before trooning out, Shuli decided to reach out to him in search of Jewish sources that dealt with trans issues:

Our stories are extremely different, and she is no longer Orthodox. But she pointed me to Chassidic, kabbalistic, and Talmudic sources that completely blew my mind: a teaching from the 18th century Chassidic master Rabbi Yechiel Michael of Zloczow that Isaac Avinu was born with a male body and a female soul; medieval kabbalistic sources about a man reincarnating in the body of a woman and about the need for all human beings to be simultaneously male and female; a midrash in the Talmud about Dinah bas Leah’s sex being changed from male to female while she was still in the womb; and more. These sources blew my mind, because I had thought that no pre-feminist Jewish writings had anything to say about trans people, let alone affirming the complexity and mutability of Biblical figures’ sex and gender! And yet, there it is, loud and clear, in an 18th century Chassidic text: “It is known, according to the sod [mysticism] of reincarnation, that at times a female would be in a male body, because for reasons of gilgul [the cycling of souls], the soul of a female would come to be in a male.”

Alright, let's break this down. Aside from the fact that no actual Chassid would pay any attention to someone unironically using the phrase "Chassidic master", this is masking two important points. Firstly, all of the sources cited, being pre-modern religious thinkers who were conservative even by the standards of their eras, would have viewed troons as abominable homosexual perverts worthy of stoning. Hell, the Talmud concludes that a man is (technically) liable for the death penalty if he penetrates himself (yes, this is an actual passage). Do you really think they'd embrace troonism?

Secondly, and to go to the heart of the matter, this is ignoring the motivation for all of those statements. Most pre-modern Jewish thinkers, as well as most pre-moderns in general, considered women as inferior, flawed versions of men. A man would be reincarnated in the body of a woman as punishment for sins committed in a previous life. Even Abby Stein has to admit this on the source sheet Shuli links to:

Sometimes a man may reincarnate into the body of a woman because of a sin, (cultural context) or something similar. This woman who has received the soul of a man will not be able to conceive and become pregnant.

Oh, what's that (cultural context), you ask? Well, the original Hebrew text, censored by Stein, reads "because of a sin such as homosexual intercourse". But this writer would totally support troonism you guys!

Likewise, Dinah's sex was changed to female because a male child would have resulted in her mother Leah having a greater share in the ancestry of Jacob's children that actually counted - his sons. Not to be too woke, but these sources aren't affirmations of trannies - they're affirmations of what [current year] folx would usually call sexism and misogyny. On the other hand, MtFs are all about that, so who knows.

His actual trooning process is the subject of the third article. There are several classic AGP symptoms displayed:

1. Identification of femininity with being an emotional wreck and acting acting like a child:

My emotions changed. It feels as if I had previously experienced the world in grayscale and suddenly everything is bursting with color. Every emotion feels a thousand times stronger. I cry. I have mood swings. I crave deeper friendships, and I feel an intense need for physical and emotional intimacy. In a very real sense, my body is going through puberty – but this time, a female one. Emotionally, I feel and behave like a teenage girl.

2. "Gynecologists can't tell the difference!"

Bottom surgery – in my case, penile-inversion vaginoplasty – is a major operation with an intense recovery. No, contrary to popular myth, surgeons do not cut off trans womens’ penises. Rather, my penis and scrotum will be transformed into a vagina, labia, and clitoris. My penis will be inverted into my body, the erectile tissue removed, and the glans repurposed as a clitoris. The skin will be used to create labia and a vaginal canal. My urethra will be rerouted inside my body to a new urethral opening above my vagina. If the procedure is successful, I will have a self-lubricating vagina, an erogenous clitoris, and realistic labia – in short, a vulva that is physically indistinguishable from that of most women.

3. Letting dilation go without mention and pretending it isn't a horribly painful thing you'll need to do until you 41%:

Following my surgery, I will remain in the hospital for four to five days, including over Shabbos. Then I will be discharged to a friend’s house in New Jersey, where I will recover in bed with 24-7 care. My life, I am told, will consist of eating, sleeping, watching cute cat videos on YouTube, and probably moaning a lot. Sitting will be painful, as will standing. I’ll hardly be able to walk.

In January, I can go home. But sitting and standing will still be painful, and I will spend most of my time in bed. I will be unable to drive until March. As a single parent, I will have to rely on community support for transportation, babysitting, and shopping.

Fourth piece:

Judaism, one might argue, is all about binaries. Binaries infuse our language, our laws, and our very conceptions of nature. Orthodox vs. Non-Orthodox. Kosher vs. Non-Kosher. Day vs. Night. But just as we speak of binaries, we also speak of the uncertainty of binaries. Can we drive on Shabbat to get to a hospital and still call ourselves Orthodox? (It’s complicated.) Is a chicken soup still kosher if you accidentally spill milk in it? (That’s complicated, too.) We begin Shabbat at the start of sunset but conclude Shabbat at the end of sundown, because honestly? We have no idea how to distinguish between day and night. We speak of these opposites – day and night – yet we have no idea when one gives way to the other. And so, to be safe, we err on the side of caution, beginning Shabbat just before the earliest possible interpretation of night and concluding Shabbat just after the latest possible interpretation of day.

Usual cringe troon argument that binaries don't exist. You don't need a Bachelor's in Talmudic Law to know that it's stupid.

In his mystical diary, Rabbi Joseph Karo – the author of the Shulchan Aruch – discusses the case of an infertile woman. He concludes that her body is that of a woman, but her soul is that of a man: “This woman, in the past, was a proper male scholar. […] But his soul was reincarnated into a female.” Therefore, Karo explains, she cannot mate with her husband, “because a male and another male cannot produce offspring.” Yes, Rabbi Joseph Karo – the author of the Shulchan Aruch – teaches that a woman with the soul of a man is, in fact, male.
He continues. “If you shall point out that she has children from her first husband, this is because the first husband has the spark of a female soul within him.” Here, from the pen of one of the greatest, most influential rabbis in all of Jewish history, do we learn that a transgender man (who is born with the body of a woman but the soul of a man) is, in fact, male; and a transgender woman (who is born with the body of a man but the soul of a woman) is, in fact, female.

In addition to the points I made above about the purposeful distortion of these statements and what they meant in their original context (and with no disrespect meant to Rav Yosef Karo) citing someone whose "mystical diary" very prominently featured a death wish might not be the best method of convincing others of your mental stability. (Specifically, he believed that he was promised by an angel that he would be martyred by burning at the stake as a reward for his great piety and scholarship. He was very disappointed when this never occurred and he died peacefully at the age of 87). Then again, we are dealing with the 41%, so this citation may be more on the mark than Shuli realizes.

One may argue: but kabbalah (mysticism) is not mainstream Judaism. We do not pasken (determine laws) from mystical teachings. And furthermore, one may argue, these sources deal only with that which we cannot see: souls. They do not discuss that which we can see: bodies.
The Mishna discusses bodies. It struggles with the complexities of sex that arise when bodies do not match the binary of male and female: “The androgynos is in some ways like men and in other ways like women, and in others like neither men nor women.”

We don't determine laws from the Mishna either, but that's beside the point.

The concept of an androgynos is well-known to modern science, under the medical term “intersex.” Human bodies themselves, as we learn from both the Mishna and modern science, do not always fit within the binary of male and female. And just as modern science has distinguished numerous classes of bodies that do not clearly fit in the male-female binary, so, too, does the Mishna. In addition to zachar (male), nekevah (female), and androgynos (intersex), the Mishna discusses the categories of tumtum (someone whose sex organs are unclear), ay’lonit (someone who is born with female sex organs but develops male characteristics during puberty), and saris (someone who is born with male sex organs but develops female characteristics during puberty).

As above, the usual tranny mendacity about very rare and harmful deformities meaning that sex isn't a binary. Also, the Mishna doesn't treat the saris and aylonit as their own sex; they are viewed as men and women with an abnormal condition.

The fifth post is just him blathering on about tranny terminology. Not much worth seeing here.

Links:
Not a Nice Jewish Boy: How I Realized I’m Transgender | Archive

How Can I Be Jewish and Trans? (An Orthodox Transgender Woman Wrestles With God) | Archive

How I Changed My Body’s Biology: What It Means to Gender Transition | Archive

The Body of a Man with the Soul of a Woman: What Judaism Can Teach Us About Being Transgender | Archive

“Transgender” or “Transsexual?” A Guide to the Most Common Gender Vocabulary | Archive

Shuli's AGP

Attempts at passing

At first glance, Shuli seems a bit better off than the average AGP horrorshow. Not anyone you'd want to get with, but he has the chubby JOFA member dressed up for synagogue look down to a T:

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However, if you catch Shuli unprepared, or when someone else is taking his photo, he comes off a lot worse:

"But Opticana," I hear you saying, "he just had his dick and balls cut off, and has tubes stuck up his amhole to drain the blood and urine. Of course he's going to look horrible!" Fair enough. However....

Did you notice anything about all of the above pictures? They're all taken from straight on. It's only once you view him in profile that the true horror emerges:

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Like all other delusional MTFs, Shuli's estimation of his appearance is much higher that the reality:

He also exhibits the intensely creepy view of women as simultaneous child-like innocents/Disney princesses/nymphomaniacs/sex holes:

Shuli has a Yiddish Twitter account with the persona of a fairy named Leah:

Shuli whining about people clocking him:

Oh, and he's self-diagnosed with autism:

E-Begging

What's there to say? He's Jewish. He's a troon. It's a given:

Friday, December 24, 2021

Subject: surgery cost

OMG. I just got the bill for my surgery. $50. That’s it. Total!

But I owe over $6,000 for pre-surgical expenses….

The hospital’s total fee for the surgery itself was $264,956.50. My insurance covered all of it except for $50.

The reason is because I had reached my out-of-pocket max before the surgery took place. I owe over $6,000 for my pre-surgical pelvic scan and pre-surgical lab work in November. And then there are all the other medical copays, plus pharmacy medications. Overall, between starting my new insurance plan in September and having surgery in December, I owe nearly $10,000 in medical copays.

So, yeah, the surgery only cost me $50. But if I hadn’t already reached my out-of-pocket max, it would have cost me wayyyyyyyy more than that.

So I need to figure out now how I’m going to pay that $10,000. The GoFundMe has been AMAZING and has gotten me over $4000 so far, which has covered my rent and other basic expenses in December. And so many people signed up for my Meal Train that I hardly need to worry about grocery expenses in January. But I’ve used up all the money from GoFundMe on basic expenses.

I’m easing my way back into teaching in January. I’ll need to figure out a way to get about $25,000 from work in the next couple months so that I can pay off the medical bills and also cover rent and other basic expenses.

Do you know anyone with $25,000 to spare? Let me know. :-) Otherwise, I’ll get it from work while I’m still on bedrest. I don’t yet know how I’ll get it from work while I’m still on bedrest. Or maybe I’ll just go into debt, and pay it off when I can, maybe this summer? Who knows. We’ll see. But, one day at a time. I’ll get through this.

In praise of Shuli, he is a very kind-hearted person. Even though it might result in his own GoFundMe getting less, he doesn't hesitate to shill for those less fortunate than him (both financially and aesthetically):

In the best tradition of "religious" grifters, Shuli solicited donations on a website meant for the purpose of prayer requests:

After the blood clot incident (see below), he didn't miss the opportunity to record an incredibly whiny video from his hospital bed about his financial situation:

Several weeks after his surgery, Shuli's electricity was disconnected as he was six months in arrears. He claimed that this was because he didn't realize it was his responsibility and set about e-begging again:

True Torah Judaism

Talmudic Sperging

Despite the normative Orthodox practice forbidding cross dressing (as codified in Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 182:5), Shuli maintains that his larping as a woman is sanctioned by the Talmud:

Wow, this is really something, isn't it? If we ignore the fact that APGs cross-dress for the exact purpose of fulfilling their weird "lesbian" fetishes and raping teen girls in restrooms, this seems like a convincing argument. If the Talmud and Rashi both make such unequivocal statements, than why are Orthodox rabbis so against transgenderism? Let's take a look at the full text of the Rashi that Shuli cites:

THE APPAREL OF A MAN SHALL NOT BE ON A WOMAN – so that she look like a man, in order to consort with men, for this can only be for the purpose of adultery (unchastity).
NEITHER SHALL A MAN PUT ON A WOMAN'S GARMENT in order to go and stay unnoticed amongst women.

oh no shuli bros, i'm not feeling so well. It turns out that Rashi is a TERF. He understands the verse (as interpreted by the Talmud) to mean that any time a troon tries to pass, it can only be because they want to infiltrate the opposite sex's spaces for their own perverted desires. J. K. Rowling has been spotted boarding a flight to Bnei Brak.

In common with many modern Jewish lefties, Shuli believes that kabbalah is proto-queer thought and cites it to normalize his mental condition:

As part of his attempts to religiously legitimize undoing his circumcision, Shuli is looking to do a "mikvah ritual" at Mayyim Hayyim after he recovers from getting rid of his Shlomo (lol good luck with that):

We can assume it will be some cringe made up prayer along these lines:

Synagogue

Shuli currently belongs to Congregation Beth Sholom, a self-described "vibrant modern orthodox synagogue" in Providence, Rhode Island. Don't let the name fool you. The synagogue belongs to a movement originally known "Open Orthodoxy", which has been denounced by all major Modern Orthodox bodies for (((subverting))) actual Jewish belief:

The Orthodox Union (OU), Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) and National Council of Young Israel have all in turn responded to Open Orthodoxy by severing their ties with the Open Orthodox institutions. The RCA does not accredit the rabbinic qualifications of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah or Yeshivat Maharat graduates, the OU and Young Israel do not accept females as rabbinic clergy, and Young Israel Synagogues no longer accept candidates with YCT accreditation.

Beth Shalom is headed by Rabbi Barry Dolinger, who looks exactly like what you would expect of a rabbi who lets a troon into the women's section:

As detailed by an acquaintance:

Despite the OU officially banning female clergy in 2017 (a move that resulted in massive coping and seething by the online Jewish left) and Beth Sholom having a "rabba" on staff, the synagogue continues to display the organization's logo on its website. They're probably getting away with this only because they're just too irrelevant for anyone to have noticed it yet. Currently, the "vibrant" synagogue struggles to put together ten men for services and is forced to pray together with another congregation on weekdays. Usual staples of Orthodox congregations such as Daf Yomi (the daily study of a page of Talmud) are lacking, although they do offer more non-traditional options such as two different classes on meditation. Don't worry, though. The community knows it has serious issues and is working to address them:

About the only thing Beth Sholom succeeds at is having what is probably the highest amount of gays per capita of any synagogue in America, which the rabbi is proud to note:

The positive response in Providence’s wider Jewish community included Congregation Beth Sholom, a local Orthodox synagogue. The 100-household synagogue has around 10 people who have come out as LGBTQ in the last decade, which has helped shift community members’ views.

Still, for many members, Zerin’s coming-out was the their first experience grappling with the issue of transgender rights on a personal level, said Rabby Barry Dolinger.

“For a lot of people, it’s been their own process of actually coming to terms with the issue not on a national or political level, but on a human level. And that’s for how many people, hearts and minds are changed when it’s not an issue, it’s a friend,” said Dolinger, who emailed Zerin a few days after she came out to express his support.

Alarmingly, Dolinger allows Shuli to lead a children's prayer group at the synagogue:

You would think that the synagogue and rabbi going out of their way to accommodate Shuli's delusions would stop his whining. You would be wrong. In spite of Shuli willingly leaving Conservative Judaism, which is more or less egalitarian, for Orthodoxy, he's upset by their decision to treat him as a True and Honest woman with all that that entails according to halacha (Jewish law), even by the cucked standards of Beth Sholom:

Likewise, Shuli shows no consistency in his personal observance of halacha. He doesn't really care for the rules about modesty...

Except for when he can (ab)use them to invade female spaces:

Shuli on the Bible

Like many weird online Jews, fundamentalists from Meah Shearim and actual anti-semites, Shuli is of the opinion that understanding the Bible according to pshuto shel mikra, the simple meaning of scripture, is an exclusively Christian practice. I can't adequately express how retarded this belief is, so I'll just leave his ramblings as they are:

To be fair, this may just be an unfortunate result of Shuli's obsessive hatred of Christianity in general. This includes such bizarre beliefs as that the USPS not delivering mail on Sundays is Christian supremacy:

As well as that Christmas music in a Dunkin Donuts is a personal antisemitic attack on him:

Speaking of music...

Music and Poetry

Shuli holds a BA in Music History from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Historical Musicology (no, I don't know what the difference is either) from New York University, and has taught music-related topics at several other institutes of higher learning. Despite this impressive academic background, even a brief encounter with his own work proves the truth of the aphorism that those that can't do, teach:

Shuli's equally awful collection of English/Yiddish troon poetry, with bonus e-begging at the end:

English text only:

(a few days after I first realized I'm not cisgender
and shaved off my enormous beard,
though I didn't yet know what to call myself,
other than simply "not cisgender.")

A heart splits apart in three parts.
In three parts, a heart splits apart.

One part to the land of the elves runs away.
It dances and prances and sings as it sways.
But the elves, they shun it and cast it away.

One part to the land of the fairies, it flitters.
It gleams and it sparkles, with radiance glitters.
But the fairies, they bind up its wings and it withers.

And the last part, the third,
Swirls between the two worlds –
Not hither, not thither.
It dances and sparkles,
But only alone, for itself, for it knows –
In the land of the elves, they insist its a fairy;
In the land of the fairies, they insist its an elf.

And the heart splits apart,
Splits apart, splits apart.
And who has the courage,
Desire,
And wisdom,
To listen to truth and to comprehend truth –
That this heart is an elf and yet not an elf;
That this heart is a fairy and yet not a fairy;
Nobody gets it.
Nobody wants to.
Not even, above all, the poor heart itself.
A heart splits apart.
Is this really its fate?

(two weeks after I realized I'm transgender,
I created my first social media account with a girl's name,
and with a clean slate to write what I want,
I wrote this poem that no one, I knew,
would ever accept if they knew it was mine.)
In a corner,
Full of shadows,
In a cottage in the woods,
There, a fairy,
Full of wisdom,
Sits and mutters, "soon."

"Soon they'll know."
"Soon they'll understand."
"But they won't know."
"They won't understand."

And the fairy,
Full of wisdom,
Stays silent. Hush, hush, hush...

(the next day,
as I pondered the irony
of trans men and trans women
desperately hating what the other desires
and desperately wanting what the other detests)

(1)

A man covered in hair –
So much hair, so much hair!
His feet, his hands, his chest, his navel –
Hairy like a forest covered in weeds.

Everyone shouts, "oh my gosh!
The most beautiful man in all the world!"
He hates it, but it makes no difference –
He shaves, and it all grows back.

(2)

A woman with limbs smooth as water –
Never ever needs to shave.
Smooth arms, smooth feet,
Smooth cheeks, smooth chin.

Everyone shouts, "oh my gosh!
The most beautiful woman in all the world!"
She hates it, but it makes no difference –
She yearns for hair, but it never grows.

(3)

The man looks at the hairless woman.
He stares and yearns and cries:
"If only I had such smooth limbs!"
And his hair, meanwhile, continues to grow.

(4)

The woman looks at the hairy man.
She stares and yearns and cries:
"If only I had such hairy limbs!"
And her hair, meanwhile, doesn't grow.

(5)

Suddenly, from the Heavens there falls
A fairy, who calls out: "Wait!
Don't cry, don't yearn, and please be still.
You will get what you desire."

(6)

And with a flick of her magic wand,
Listen, listen, what will happen!

The man's soul flies out of his body;
It floats in the air and waits.

The woman's soul flies out of her body;
It floats in the air and waits.

(7)

And with a flick of her magic wand,
The woman flies into the man's body.

And with a flick of her magic wand,
The man flies into the woman's body

How they rejoice,
These two souls!
Free from prison!
Free from pain!

(

And then, suddenly, they wake up.
Oh. It was a dream. Or was it a nightmare?

(a few days following a painful conversation
with a well-meaning friend
who was struggling to embrace "the new me")

Nevertheless you'll be okay,
Even despite your pain.
For when you turn your gaze away
And bury it deeply in your pain,
And bury it deeply in your soul,
Where a spark of hope
Flickers and flashes,
Dances and prances,
Rises and falls,
There you'll learn,
Like a flash from Heaven,
That you, it is true, will be ok

(written at a summer retreat,
where, for the first time in its history,
its organizers asked people to wear pronoun pins,
which was meant to be supportive of non-cisgender people,
but, since I was still in the closet,
it gave me two uncomfortable choices:
out myself before I was ready,
or wear a "he/him/his" pin.)

"Hi!"

"Hi!"

"Pronouns?"

"Mine?"

"Yes, yours!"

"I..."

"Well?"

"I..."

"Why aren't you answering?"

"I..."

"You're cisgender, I get it, but step up."

"I..."

"Be an ally! Show some respect!"

"I..."

"You're being transphobic!"

"FINE! I'm transgender! But I'm still in the closet.
Well, I'm not in the closet anymore,
Thanks to you and your
Respect and support."

(in which I not only express my sense of hopelessness,
but also play around with words and rhymes,
while indulging my love of fantasy
and waxing poetic)

In a forest, there's a wall.
In the wall: a gate.
The gate is always locked.

The forest is my life.
On one side: my past.
The other: my future.
And the gate is depression.

(written during the week between
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur,
a season of repentance
for failings that are
not my fault.)

She wastes my time.
She wastes my time.
She wastes and wastes and wastes my time.

I want to work - she says no.
I want to learn - she says no.
No matter what I want to do,
She doesn't allow it, she never allows it.

I'm not lazy!
It's not my fault!
Oh, how I hate you, depression!

(a poetic translation
is not always a semantic translation,
and that's ok; it's still a valid – and an accurate – translation)

The stars are twinkling
I'm awake
I'm sitting and thinking
I'm awake

I look outside at the stars
Something inside of me stirs
My body wants to sleep
My limbs begin to slip

But the stars are twinkling
And I'm awake
I'm sitting and thinking
And I'm awake

And so? I write a poem.

(the night that I began hormone replacement therapy)

Holy Creator!

You created Isaac our Father
With a male body and a female soul.

You created Dinah, the daughter of Leah our Mother,
As a male, but changed her sex
While she was still in the womb.

And you created me.

Do I then, like Isaac,
have a male body and a female soul?

Did you make me a girl
before turning me into a boy
but forget to tell me about this change?

Help me, Creator of Isaac,
of Dinah, and of my humble self,
to understand
who, how, and why I am.

Science isn't enough.

(April-May 2020)

Here comes a wave meant to wash me away,
A wave of self-torment and horror.
Beaten and broken by lifelong dysphoria,
My voice drowns itself in my mouth.

I cry out loud,
But I won’t crumble
When my own voice
Disgusts my heart and soul.

Go order me silent!
I won’t lie anymore!
Enough with the worries!
I scream from my bones, hineni!

‘Cause I am
I am I, that’s who I am,
I didn’t choose this, this is who I am,
And I scream, I am here, hineni!

The Torah tells us
With crystal-clear words
The laws, the rules, and the standards:
“A man should not wear
A woman’s clothing”
But hey - I’m not a man, now am I!

And I
I’ll never again be broken
So come on and try
Try to cut me and break me and stab me and

Order me silent!
I won’t lie anymore!
Enough with the worries!
I scream from my bones, hineni!

‘Cause I am
I am I, that’s who I am,
I didn’t choose this, this is who I am,
And I scream, I am here, hineni!

Dysphoria is a poison
That creates its own antidote,
Made from tears and suffering,
From misery and pain,
And I just don’t care anymore!

So order me silent!
I won’t lie anymore!
Enough with the worries!
I scream from my bones, hineni!

‘Cause I am
I am I, that’s who I am,
I didn’t choose this, this is who I am,
And I scream, I am here, hineni!
And I scream, I am here, hineni!
And I scream, I am here, hineni!
Hineni!

If you'd prefer to listen to him read said poetry (although I don't know why you would), then here's an hour of him doing it over Zoom:

Archive:

Shuli Shoahs His Dick

On December 9, 2021, Shuli underwent schlongectomy at the skilled hands of Dr. Bella Avaessian in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Finally, he could be rid of his self-diagnosed "birth defect" that had been the source of such trauma in his life:

Prior attempts at treatment included getting his balls electrocuted for a year straight:

Said trauma may or may not have had something to do with a micropenis:

Anyway, the classic symptoms of post-op AGP, such as boasting about "depth" and getting turned on by medical personnel like all True and Honest women, manifested immediately after the surgery:

Today, on December 15, 2021, they removed all the packing and tubes. I saw my entire vulva and vagina for the very first time, at age 35. The surgeon briefly put her finger under my clitoral hood and touched my clitoris so I know where it is, and OH the sensation!

Not only is my vagina full-depth, but it’s even deeper than average! They taught me how to dilate using a medicated lubricant. I pushed the entire dilator in and it still didn’t reach the end of my vaginal canal.

I am so happy. I am so grateful. I cried. I sobbed. i wailed. It is nothing short of a miracle.

Praise the Lord and pass the dilators:

I will be bedridden for the next 3 months as my body heals from this major operation.... from this miracle, enacted through the divine partnership of G-d and people.

I am an Orthodox Jew. My gender transition has been, for me, deeply spiritual and has brought me even closer to G-d.

After the doctor left the room today, and I waited alone for the surgeon to come in, I blessed G-d for this miracle, as you can hear in this video. And I cried some more.

Blessed are you, G-d, Sovereign of the Universe, who has given us life, sustained us, and brought us to this moment.

Blessed are you, G-d, Sovereign of the Universe, that such exists in this world.

Blessed are you, G-d, Sovereign of the Universe, who made me a woman.

Here's a video of Shuli after the surgery crying while reciting the above Hebrew blessing about sustaining life (the 41% jokes write themselves):

Post-Op pics. DO NOT CLICK ON THIS.

Shuli was thrown in Facebook jail for posting his post-op photos, which is why the above ones come from a Google Docs file he made to share them (yes, really). To protest, he posted this sophisticated work of art on Instagram:

You'd think that if you had a hole carved in your pelvis by one of Jazz Jennings's surgeons, you might be at least somewhat acknowledging of why people describe trans "vaginas" as open wounds. However, Shuli is insistent that this is not the case, and spends a great amount of time denying that chopping his dick off amounts to chopping his dick off:

As he (like every troon) would have you believe, not only can real women not tell the difference; they're in fact falling over themselves to praise his new genitals:

"Read About the Amhole Clot, Bigot"

In a completely unpredictable turn of events, Shuli experienced a life-threatening complication shortly after his surgery:

Rather than admit that chopping his dick off might not have been the brightest idea, Shuli doubled down. Another person might have told someone put off by his constant tweeting about his open wound to just unfollow him, but Shuli wants us to know that the problem actually lies with us:

Miscellaneous other issues that have cropped up since the surgery:

Saturday, December 25, 2021
Subject: open wound on labium

I’m okay, but I have an open wound on one of my labia, which has been bleeding for several days but got considerably worse today. (Previously, I had mainly noticed it when toilet paper became bright red after dabbing after peeing, but today, when I got undressed to dilate, this pink discharge came trickling down both legs. That’s when I got concerned.)

I’m staying at my friend A.’s house (name redacted for privacy) during the first month of recovery. Thankfully, A.’s girlfriend, D., is a dermatologist and happened to be here this afternoon. So she did a brief exam and applied some non-stick gauze to the area. I was also able to talk with my surgeon’s on-call physician and send her a photograph that A. took.

It looks much worse than it is. D. thought it’s infected, with what appears to be pus coming out. But the on-call physician, after seeing the photo and D.’s detailed written description, said it’s not infected. The outer stitches separated, exposing a sensitive area that is yellow because the cells are turning over as they heal themselves. The discharge is not pus, but rather fibronous exudate, which is part of the body’s natural response to healing wounds. She said 98% of patients experience this in the first month post-op and it heals on its own (might take 2 weeks). I might get a similar wound on the opposite labium, too.

In the meantime, I continue as usual, making sure to keep it clean with gentle soap and water. I’m also following D.’s advice to keep the area moist to promote healing by applying surgilube (hospital-grade lubricant that I use for dilating) to my maxi pads.

It stings, and it stabs, but it’s normal and expected and will heal on its own, as long as I continue to keep it clean and minimize activity

There is potential for more:

Dilation Station

Like most troons, Shuli was surprised by the reality that shoving a piece of plastic in his open wound to keep it from healing is an agonizing process:

Unlike most troons, Shuli's way of coping is by pretending that dilation is a religious experience:

A Personal Note

BEGIN MORALFAGGING

KiwiFarms is a guilty pleasure for me. I find a lot of the activity here to be distateful, to say the least, and I can't say that the world would be worse off if Null decided to take down the site tomorrow. Call this moralfagging if you want, but I don't think that laughing at people on the internet is the way I should be spending my time. As the Psalmist says:

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.

Memes aside, I'd feel guilty if Shuli actually ended up joining the 41% due to stumbling across this thread, or because of people that stumble across this thread harassing him. I'd feel truly, horribly guilty if Shuli ended up regretting his transition due to stumbling across this thread, realizing he's irreversibly destroyed his chances of a normal life, and 41%ed because of that. But at the end of the day, it was his choice to leave his wife, pump himself full of hormones, and cut off his dick. And the only thing that will stop more people from making a choice like his is to air out just how harmful and insane transgender ideology and those that follow it are.

END MORALFAGGING

Dox:

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No Batty Boys in Jamaica · Dec 30, 2021

My goodness, a troon and an insufferable kike? She is like the Bo Jackson of lolcows.
Bumboclaat!

NerdShamer · Dec 30, 2021

At least I can add blood clot on my list of things that can go wrong with GRS.

No Batty Boys in Jamaica · Dec 30, 2021

NerdShamer said:
At least I can add blood clot on my list of things that can go wrong with GRS.

Pretty common result, actually. The neovag is an open wound that gets kept from healing by using dilators. Wounds bleed. Blood clots forms clots. Clots burst. They get hematomas too.

Perused his facebook from one of my sockpuppets. The main thing I learned is that he needs to hit up the botox clinic asap. He looks like he smells like cheap wine and queefs.

road timber · Dec 30, 2021

we're lucky to have someone who's this familiar with judaism tear his amhole diaries apart.

Coach Kreeton Of All That · Dec 31, 2021

@Opticana

Think this would make a nice addition to your OP.

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Owner of a Lonely Hole · Dec 31, 2021

Doing G-d’s work!

pr3nt177 · Dec 31, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHzIC06ZFI-d3qa37NEWfpw / https://www.creativeshuli.com/music.html

Me too buddy, me too.

Joshi_zarna · Dec 31, 2021

Here he is crying and praising G-d in Yiddish for making him into a woman

Opticana · Dec 31, 2021

Coach Kreeton Of All That said:
@Opticana

Think this would make a nice addition to your OP.

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Thanks. Elisheva is a feminine name, though. I guess that could be his real middle name anyway, but I'd bet that this is (partially) inaccurate, even if based off of voting records. I'll add it in the meanwhile.

RandallBoggs · Dec 31, 2021

Finally, a thread where I can air my full autistic MATI grievances. So far I've enjoyed laughing at troonery lunacy from the side, but this one hits close to home and the terrifying thing is that now ultra libs believe this is what Judaism is actually like lol. As an anecdote for those who are interested, here's an article explaining that no, Judaism isn't akshually super Woke. And some very important context: Haaretz is probably the most left leaning news publication in Israel, a country where being called a lefty is borderline derogatory. I can't really explain it, it's not insulting in the way you'd see an ultra lib in the US and think "oh you must be a snowflake," calling yourself left leaning invites genuine accusations of betraying your country, just to give you a frame of reference.

Anyway here's the full article for those who are too lazy to bypass the paywall:

By Rabbi Avi Shafran, Sep 04 2016

The Hassidic leader known as the “Berditchever,” Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (1740–1809), famously had only good things to say about Jews. He is said to have reacted to the sight of workers oiling their wagons’ wheels while reciting their morning prayers by lifting his eyes heavenward and declaring: “Even while they are working, Your children pray to You!” Maybe he’d respond similarly today to the sight of those email-checkers during services.

And maybe even to those who feel compelled to invoke biblical verses even when attempting to justify decidedly unbiblical notions.

Like Reform or Conservative (or “Open Orthodox”) clergy who cite the Divine declaration in Genesis that “it is not good for man to be alone” as somehow overriding Leviticus’ unequivocal forbiddance of “a man having relations with a male as with a woman.”

Or, in the latest iteration of absurdity, the claim that the Torah “offers a highly elastic view of gender,” the contention of Reform Rabbi Mark Sameth in a recent New York Times op-ed titled “Is God Transgender?”

God, of course, is neither male nor female, at least in the words’ simplest senses, as He (the Divine neuter pronoun) is not physical. So one might indeed say that God transcends gender.

The op-ed writer, though, contends that various Torah verses indicate human gender’s malleability, seizing on things like the fairly common alternate spelling of the Hebrew word for “she” with a vav, which could (but doesn’t) allow the word to be pronounced as a masculine pronoun. The deficiencies of that attempt, and his other ones, to demonstrate the Torah’s embrace of transgender rights – the idea that people should feel free to ignore the testimonies of their bodies and choose whatever sex they feel – are manifest to anyone familiar with biblical grammar and the Jewish religious tradition.

To be sure, two Midrashic sages (Vayikra Rabbah 12:2) assert that the first human was originally either androgynous or a double creation, a man and woman joined at their backs. And it is undeniable that both men and women contain multitudes, including both masculine and feminine characteristics. But to vault from that truism to the conclusion that Judaism holds that “gender is not a matter of ‘either/or’,” as Rabbi Sameth does, is a leap too far by far.

The Torah is unequivocal about the fact that being born in a male body requires living the life of a man, and that being born female entails living as a woman. (Indeterminate biological sex, a rare but real occurrence, is dealt with at length in the Talmud.) Each gender has its particular life-role to play. For most of us, that doesn’t present any great trial. For some, though, it apparently does. What that means, from a truly Jewish perspective, is that such people are privileged to have a supplementary challenge to overcome in their lives, in addition to the myriad more mundane trials faced by us all.

Taking on the life of a different sex than one’s body indicates is, in the Torah’s view, as futile as an average-height and portly fellow (like me) imagining himself as a 7’4” point guard and insisting on being accepted by the NBA. The bodies God gave us are indications of what we are and what we are not.

In fact, the notion that we have some right to ignore our biology is a rejection of the most essential idea of the Jewish faith. For Judaism is not about our wishes but our responsibilities; not about our comfort but our service. Attaining the “happiness and harmony” Rabbi Sameth sees as resulting from “choosing” one’s sex comes from accepting Divine will, not seeking to subvert it.

Judaism isn’t about trying to stretch the Torah’s fabric to suit our personal longings but rather about bending our longings to fulfill God’s will. Such self-denial, admittedly, is an unpopular notion these “liberated” days, but Judaism has been stubbornly countercultural since Sinai. It rejected the idolatries that dominated the world then; it stood resolutely against the societal evils that informed Greek, Roman and subsequent cultures no less; and it does not yield, either, to contemporary mores.

It is clear that there are people who are deeply conflicted about their gender identities. We must feel nothing but compassion for them. They face challenges the rest of us don’t. And a sensitive, knowledgeable rabbi, rebbetzin or other spiritual mentor can help those so challenged to manage their dysmorphias and make their way through their lives.

But encouraging such individuals to reject the roles consonant with their bodies is, from a Jewish perspective, wrong. And invoking spurious “sources” from the Torah to do so is, to borrow from Isaac Asimov, wronger than wrong.

Would the Berditchever somehow see something positive in a Jew like Rabbi Sameth feeling the need to find a Torah “source” for promoting something wrong? I don’t know. But what I do know is that he would never call a wrong a right.

Rabbi Avi Shafran is a columnist for the American edition of Hamodia, blogs at www.rabbiavishafran.com and serves as Agudath Israel of America’s director of public affairs. Follow him on Twitter: @RabbiAviShafran

Joshi_zarna · Dec 31, 2021

Opticana said:
Thanks. Elisheva is a feminine name, though. I guess that could be his real middle name anyway, but I'd bet that this is (partially) inaccurate, even if based off of voting records. I'll add it in the meanwhile.

It’s Samuel Elliott

pr3nt177 · Dec 31, 2021

Just adding for the record...

Careercow Shuli Elisheva Zevin / Samantha Elisheva Zerin / Shmuel Azriel Zerin / Samuel Elliot Zerin / CreativeShuli.com / @ShuliElisheva - "Orthodox Jewish" MTF, Yiddish lyricist, amateur Talmud scholar, Shlomo Shekelstein lookalike

hello fellow goyim

Introduction​

Overview​

Marriage, Trooning and Divorce​

In His Own Words​

Shuli's AGP​

Attempts at passing​

E-Begging​

True Torah Judaism​

Talmudic Sperging​

Synagogue​

Shuli on the Bible​

Music and Poetry​

Shuli Shoahs His Dick​

"Read About the Amhole Clot, Bigot"​

Dilation Station​

A Personal Note​

Attachments

Rude bwoy nah promote no nasty man, dem haffi dead

Rude bwoy nah promote no nasty man, dem haffi dead

Doctor Prober! Leaving work from windows!

Reconstituted Cockmeat Salad™️

"Cause my vagina might rip" - jonathan yaniv

Maximum Selection

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Maximum Selection

"Cause my vagina might rip" - jonathan yaniv

hello fellow goyim

Not a cruel German girl.

We will never be dust

hello fellow goyim

Curvy Nubian femme fatale

Introduction

Overview

Marriage, Trooning and Divorce

In His Own Words

Shuli's AGP

Attempts at passing

E-Begging

True Torah Judaism

Talmudic Sperging

Synagogue

Shuli on the Bible

Music and Poetry

Shuli Shoahs His Dick

"Read About the Amhole Clot, Bigot"

Dilation Station

A Personal Note