Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg - Life is a Sacred Text (Page 6)

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

Blessing. Protection. Amulet.

Blessing. Protection. Amulet.

This is Life as a Sacred Text 🌱, an everybody-celebrating, justice-centered voyage into ancient stories that can illuminate our own lives. It‘s run on a nonprofit, so it’s 100% NAZI FREE. More about the project here, and to subscribe, go here: Subscribe! As it happens, the oldest written versions

Image of Gilgamesh looking giant and muscled and a lion in his arms looking tiny and scared

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Exploring Mythic Tropes

A Black woman with jeans and a tank top and hair in a scarf parts the head of a Black man, whose eyes are closed.

A Defense of Delilah

Let's take a closer look at things from her perspective, shall we?

The band Otyken absolutely in the zone

have some cool stuff

Hey, all-- Have some recommendations of cool things, in anticipation of Shabbat. 1) Yael Kanarek has been heading a "Regendered Torah" project called Toratah for the last few years, basically translating the whole Torah (and other parts of the Hebrew Bible) in Hebrew and English while flipping the

Says "a bintel brief" in yiddish

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The Delightful Radicalism of an early 20th c. Yiddish Advice Column

pen and ink drawing of Samson, with sunburst design behind it

taking a holy time out

When it's time to do some serious spiritual heavy lifting, taking a break from things that make it difficult to hear that still small voice within is sometimes key.

Me replying to Grace's tweet, above, with "Why I quit an MFA program after one semester, basically"

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That MFA story

Earthenware vessel filled with copper ore and mifepristone

ancient abortifacients, reproductive coercion, and bad translations

So... if this this "bitter water" induces pregnancy endings?? How would we understand this whole scenario?

Sheep and chalkboard that says 2+2 = 5

You Asked, I Answered

Two weeks ago, we had an ask the community conversation, with promises that any questions directed at me, specifically, would be addressed in a couple of weeks. It is now a couple of weeks. So! As usual I a lot, so– fewer questions, more text. Your shocked face. Apologies if

Ancient vessels

debunking the conquest narrative

facing one of the hardest narrative arcs in the Bible armed with the truth of what really happened

Desert, with rainbow captured

the desert speaks

It's been a minute since we've had a good old-fashioned juicy text study, and the ideas raised on Monday have lots of friends in the tradition– so I thought I'd bring some of the good stuff. As always: There are a bunch of texts,

Fox looking at you like you have some explaining to do.

Ask the Rabbi and Each Other!

Hi, hi, hi!! It's been a while since we've had a chance for an open community post, and it's been even longer since we've done a proper Ask The Rabbi post, so I figured this would be a good time to try

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adding more benches to the beit midrash

We do not need to be prisoners to our texts.

On Trees, And Our Own Growing

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On Trees, And Our Own Growing

kavanot (intentions) at the turning of a year

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kavanot (intentions) at the turning of a year

on beauty, fear, and the limits of longing

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on beauty, fear, and the limits of longing

Guest Post: The Messianic Feminism of Shabbatai Zevi and Sarah Ashkenazi

Jericho Vincent on the Embodied Mysticism Now Derided as Heresy

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both/and