“People have disabilities.
A handicap, on the other hand, is a disadvantage that makes achievement unusually difficult.... The person may have the disability but the environment produces the handicap. A handicap is a societal burden, not necessarily related to a person’s physical or mental condition: a disability places an additional burden upon the individual but in no way diminishes that person’s potential – society does that.” Harold E. Yoker
The Torah is transparent and revealing with all our fathers and mothers. In every instance it details their disabilities from blindness to mental illness, to the incapacity to bear children…. And yet these are the people whom we venerate for their remarkable, unique abilities.
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