A while back I did a three-part series on Jesus and the Jews– specifically, Jesus' own Jewish context, and my argument for why I think he was (at least in part) teaching and preaching as a Pharisee of the School of Hillel. It takes me three posts to frame the historical thing and then compare what's happening in Christian texts with sources from my own tradition. I ask that if you read this series, that you please do so in order, as intended.
And then, after that, there are a few posts on some hard things. They're not inherently about Christianity (in that every religion has its liberatory threads and its fundamentalisms, hoo boy) but they're places where the Christian conversation intersects with the conversations here, so they made their way to this page.
I bet you probably know someone else(es) who's been looking for all of this, here, together, too. Tell them!
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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