“The work I’m doing for this project began out of my studies of queer and trans topics within the Torah,” said Mat Wilson — a rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania — about the Disability Torah Project, a hub for wisdom and learning about the intersection of disability with Jewish texts and experiences.

Wilson, whose experience of disability has always been more invisible throughout their whole life, hadn’t previously identified as disabled because it was just their norm. Over the last five years, they’ve started using mobility aids and now walk with a pronounced limp and are more recognizably disabled to others.

“I’m navigating something that is new and is impacting my life, and isn’t just what I’ve always lived with,” they explained. “So

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