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About Life is a Sacred Text
Life is a Sacred Text offers liberation-forward nourishment for your heart, soul, and noggin; it's for readers of any, and no, spiritual or religious inclination.
LiST uses ancient stories to help illuminate our lives and to help us to see ourselves and the moment in which we live more clearly.
This is a place where ancient wisdom and historical scholarship can teach us to become our best selves; to do better at the messy business of community care; and learn crucial lessons from those who've defied Empire before us.
And there are occasional side-quests to other intersections around history, culture, Cool Weird Stuff, and deep meaning.
This for everyone—for Jews and non-Jews, for people who believe in God, people who don’t, and people who are kind of *shrug emoji* on the subject.
This is a place to see ourselves more clearly, to illuminate what might have been hard to discern.
Your life is a sacred text.
It can be read in so many ways.
This, maybe, is one of them.
For more of everything—access to four+ years of archives, guided text study, open discussion threads, more musings, Ask The Rabbi threads, monthly Zoom Salons and building community through applying the biggest questions to our own lives—join the Life is a Sacred Text community.
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