[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":100},["ShallowReactive",2],{"topic-eightgenders":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":92,"extension":93,"meta":94,"navigation":95,"path":96,"seo":97,"stem":98,"__hash__":99},"topics\u002Ftalmudic-topics\u002Feightgenders.md","Is It True That Judaism Has Eight Genders?",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":88},"minimark",[9,18,30,33,74,77],[10,11,12,13,17],"p",{},"The Talmud does not recognize a concept of \"gender\" as distinct from sex. The Talmud rather upholds Genesis 1:27, which says \"",[14,15,16],"span",{},"And"," God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.\" There are two sexes in Judaism & its Talmud - not eight sexes or \"genders.\"",[10,19,20,21,25,26,29],{},"What some have construed as the Talmud \"recognizing multiple genders\" in ",[22,23,24],"em",{},"Mishnah Bikkurim"," and ",[22,27,28],{},"Yebhamot"," is actually conflation of Talmud-described sexual conditions — the two normal ones (\"zachar\" for men, \"nekevah\" for women), and six states of sexual disorder, with contemporary gender theory.",[10,31,32],{},"What some have called \"genders\" are actually:",[34,35,36,44,50,56,62,68],"ul",{},[37,38,39,43],"li",{},[40,41,42],"strong",{},"androgynos"," — hermaphraditism",[37,45,46,49],{},[40,47,48],{},"tumtum"," — obscuring of genitals",[37,51,52,55],{},[40,53,54],{},"aylonit hamah"," — a woman who either lacks a womb or has a hormonal imbalance",[37,57,58,61],{},[40,59,60],{},"aylonit adam"," — a man with an injury that prevents sexual development",[37,63,64,67],{},[40,65,66],{},"saris hamah"," — a naturally sterile\u002Fimpotent man",[37,69,70,73],{},[40,71,72],{},"saris adam"," — a castrated man",[10,75,76],{},"Sources:",[34,78,79],{},[37,80,81],{},[82,83,87],"a",{"href":84,"rel":85},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.newsweek.com\u002Fjudaisms-stance-gender-clear-despite-attempts-rewrite-torah-opinion-1790700",[86],"nofollow","Rabbi Yaakov Menken",{"title":89,"searchDepth":90,"depth":90,"links":91},"",2,[],"Distinguishing the Talmud's descriptions of sexual conditions from contemporary gender theory.","md",{},true,"\u002Ftalmudic-topics\u002Feightgenders",{"title":5,"description":92},"talmudic-topics\u002Feightgenders","SSHZCaFDYFKrysyTzDynRYNgF5olDHHqY2plo1krwgo",1778048375452]