Life is a Sacred Text
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Ask The Rabbi And Each Other!Questions to which I do not have the answer include: Why is this dog wearing glasses? Does this dog enjoy wearing a sweater? Why is this dog so …
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Hint: It's not sodomy
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Name StoriesAn Inuit mother and daughter on the tundra of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada in late spring. I don’t know either of their names, but Inuit cultu…
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Some Words On Why the Words We Use Matter
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Which Kind Of Going, Though?Let’s talk about leavetaking. There’s an expression in modern Hebrew that translates to, “Change your place, change your luck.” It might be base…
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Or: when it's time let go of how things have always been
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What about you?OK, hi, welcome! It’s been a few weeks, I thought it’d be nice to give us all a chance to connect less formally—or, at least, less textually. I’…
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Or: Mediocre Won't Cut It
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The Lilith WithinMy friends, this is the last open Thursday discussion post before Thursdays go subscriber-only next week. (Mondays will stay free to everyone on…
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Or: Demon Women, Incantation Bowls, and You
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Unpack Your Bags, Stay a While The Garden of Eden story has a lot of heavy baggage for people. Thanks to some truly unhelpful and uninspired readings of the text, many people …
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Humankind's first act of free will is a profound act of bravery.
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