Ah, I'd forgotten it was mincha. Possibly because I'm usually fasting during Yom Kippur? :-)
(Or, more likely, I often nap between services and so miss the mincha Torah reading...)
I read an interesting commentary a little while ago which looked at the language (which is kinda wierd) in this section and used that to build a case that originally the section included forbidden homosexual relationships (i.e. a man couldn't sleep with his uncle). They used that to reason that, at the time, other homosexual relationships were not forbidden. At some later point, the text was changed to what we have now.
However, as intellectually interesting as that may be, I can totally see not wanting to read that on Yom Kippur mincha.
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Date: 2018-09-23 01:26 am (UTC)(Or, more likely, I often nap between services and so miss the mincha Torah reading...)
I read an interesting commentary a little while ago which looked at the language (which is kinda wierd) in this section and used that to build a case that originally the section included forbidden homosexual relationships (i.e. a man couldn't sleep with his uncle). They used that to reason that, at the time, other homosexual relationships were not forbidden. At some later point, the text was changed to what we have now.
However, as intellectually interesting as that may be, I can totally see not wanting to read that on Yom Kippur mincha.