(So basically: donвЂ™t cheat on your wife with a dude, which is probably treated separately from вЂњdonвЂ™t commit adulteryвЂќ because adultery would come with the risk of an illegitimate child.) Pederasty (adult male/adolescent male sex) is full-stop forbidden, a man sleeping with a male prostitute is full-stop forbidden, a man sleeping with a man as part of any kind of sex magic or fertility ritual is forbidden.ДЄnd my rabbiвЂ™s personal interpretation, based on the sentence construction: a man shouldnвЂ™t sleep with another man in a womanвЂ™s bed. HereвЂ™s an incomplete list of possibilities: The strange sentence construction suggests that вЂњlie with another manвЂќ uses a feminine construction you wouldnвЂ™t normally find in a sentence thatвЂ™s entirely about men, and while вЂњtoevahвЂќ means вЂњforbidden,вЂќ itвЂ™s not actually clear what is forbidden. The grammar surrounding вЂњmenвЂќ in that sentence isnвЂ™t correct, and the word IвЂ™ve translated as вЂњforbiddenвЂќ is вЂњtoevah,вЂќ a word so fucking old we literally donвЂ™t know what it meant anymore. The most вЂњaccurateвЂќ word-for-word translation of that verse would say вЂњa man shall not lie with another man it is forbidden.вЂќ We do read Hebrew and we still donвЂ™t know shit. They donвЂ™t read Hebrew and they donвЂ™t know shit.ДЄnd now hereвЂ™s something you probably wonвЂ™t hear from any of those Fine Christian Folks в„ў anytime soon, either:

You guys know that verse in Leviticus that homophobes like to trot out? Well, IвЂ™m here to tell you: Hey, your friendly neighborhood Jew here! YouвЂ™re all valid, and frankly, if there is aВ вЂloving God,вЂ™ then that God will be happy to see youВ happy. So why every Joe on the streets thinks they can take one or two verses, completely out of context and probably mis-translated several times to boot, and use it to spout propaganda and hatred for an entire group of peopleВ will forever be beyond me. I have a hard time knowing what my grandpa is talking about, when he starts going on about the technology or practices of his youth, and that was only about 80 years ago, in the same country and in the same languageВ as me. The bible is one long-ass game of telephone, whispered around the world in dozens if not hundreds of languages, for thousands of years. This mistranslation crept into the Greek Septuagint version and was uncovered by modern scholars with access to old Hebrew manuscripts.вЂќ Could that simple fact of geology have had anything to do with those famous walls tumbling down? Then I discovered that Moses and the tribes of Israel never crossed the Red Sea but escaped from Pharaoh and his chariots across the Sea of Reeds, an uncertain designation which might be one of several Egyptian lakes or a marshy section of the Nile Delta.

вЂњ In researching the worldвЂ™s oldest city, for instance, I learned that JoshuaвЂ™s Jericho is one of the oldest human settlements. Hell, in Kenneth DavisвЂ™s DonвЂ™t Know Much About The Bible, thereвЂ™s a passage that absolutely blows my mind and proves just how much we can misinterpret with simple translation mistakes: ItвЂ™s content taken out of context and misinterpreted over hundreds of years of translations, re-translations, and mis-translations. The bible doesnвЂ™t condemn homosexuality anyway.

Whole art of deduction