Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg - Life is a Sacred Text (Page 5)

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

blue fabric with a tear, being mended with white thread and needle

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repenting, and, hopefully, repair

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read this instead

A graphic illustration with 3 people (women? femmes?) who are Black, Brown and Asian, and the words Envision Peace

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the work of peacemaking

Rabbi Alan Lew, z'l

Food. Money. Sex. Tech.

a practice to see yourself more closely, from Rabbi Alan Lew

gorgeous sparkly dotted watercolor

Soul Cycles

top image is a before/after nose job drawing. Bottom is prince charming putting the slipper on Cinderella.

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

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May his memory be for a blessing ❤️

It's an album cover for the band the Liz Pharisees

Wrapping up Jesus

A sample platter of Gospel x Rabbinics mashups

Japanese print of ocean sea and flowers

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Another Batch of Q & As

Painting of two figures, similar to each other, though one is blue and one is more violet-toned.

GUEST POST: On Tisha B'Av, Grief and Transformation After Assault, by Rabbi Amalya Volz

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

Image of the US/Mexico wall from above-- big picnic table stretching across it; tablecloth is a haunting photo of eyes

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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.

drawing of bunnies all around a pond full of froggies

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ask the rabbi and each other!!

Lotta dudes with turbans and tallitot hunched over, looking conspiratorial

Jesus and the Jews: Part One

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

Two young kids in black and white studying a tattered Talmud together

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How to Talmud

Looking Underneath the Hood

Painting of a ship's deck with "You are here"-type pointers on it, like a map.

find your place on deck

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

buncha big fancy marble columns

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Torah Against Empire

We Have Thoughts.

Image of the capitol building being stormed by Jan 6 coup goons and trump and US flags

On Authoritarianism

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

Binoculars at a tourist spot that you have to pay a quarter for

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out of the liminal?

Palm trees and desert

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We Made it Through the Wilderness

Photo of a Black person, with the reflection of US Flags seen behind them in the window

proclaim liberty

many declarations, interwoven

figure wrapped in garment with shin, gold jewelry, smoke coming out the top of her head

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good things for brainmeats and heartbeats

Image of cars driving on a desert highway

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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

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Tzlofchad's Daughters and the Master's Tools