Ren Finkel is a chronically ill multimedia artist, community organizer, and rabbinical school drop-out in Philadelphia. They’re in a long-distance relationship with Pittsburgh, where they first learned about anti-capitalism and were brought back to Jewish practice. They are deeply committed to healing work and restorative justice.

After a summer at Queer Talmud Camp, studying ancestral Jewish text has become the heart of their spiritual practice. They tend to study Talmud with a 2:1 ratio of respect to irreverence. In their spare time they like to make Sefaria source sheets, specifically about how gay certain Talmudic Rabbis are, specifically Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish—and all they need is one line of Berakhot to prove that Rabbi Gamliel was a twink who believed in disability justice.