Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg - Life is a Sacred Text (Page 4)

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Jews, Gender and Assimilation

Roots! Tropes! Tensions!

Joachim Prinz in black and white speaking into mics

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the law and the land

photo of a white young man

May his memory be for a blessing ❤️

Friends, there's been a significant loss in our extended community, and one of our own has an ask of us during this agonizing time. There is a tradition of reciting Psalms (and yes, though Hebrew is traditional, whatever language you've got is great) on behalf of

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Wrapping up Jesus

A sample platter of Gospel x Rabbinics mashups

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Another Batch of Q & As

Hey all– Another round of questions, with my answers, opinions, thoughts, ruminations, references, etc. Any advice for handling fear of family and friends dying? My psychologist and I talk about it, but it’s still paralyzing at times. Listen, I'm a parent– and one who's already

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On seeking-- and finding-- God even in the horrors that defy explanation.

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spirituality x justice

taking a moment to see the forest as a whole

Jesus on the cross wrapped in a tallis, Jews persecuted elsewhere in the frame

Jesus and Beit Hillel (Part 2!)

And Matthew 23. Let's have a look.

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ask the rabbi and each other!!

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Jesus and the Jews: Part One

The first of a 3-part series on the Gospels and Jewish text

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How to Talmud

Looking Underneath the Hood

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find your place on deck

another world is possible-- but we must start living into it today

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Torah Against Empire

We Have Thoughts.

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On Authoritarianism

Or: What Year 600 of the Reich Taught Me About Project 2025

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out of the liminal?

The end of Numbers! Can you believe it? Do you remember how, at the beginning of Numbers, we talked about endings, liminal spaces, and beginnings? And how the liminal space is a time of both confusion and one of creativity– letting go of the old ways, finding one's

Palm trees and desert

We Made it Through the Wilderness

Numbers, You Sure Counted

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proclaim liberty

many declarations, interwoven

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read this instead

good things for brainmeats and heartbeats

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on the road again

Five Black American-appearing women standing in the front yard, could be anytime mid 1970s-1990s, easily

Tzlofchad's Daughters and the Master's Tools

Can we make true institutional change?

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Hilchot (the laws of) Pluralism

What makes true pluralism possible?

Balaam blessing the Children of Israel, December 1791 sketch of man standing, arms outstretched

When We Look to See

Everything Opens Up

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Women in the Wilderness

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How Judaism Brought Me Closer To My Father’s Memory as A Second Generation Queer Parent, by Elsa Sjunneson

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