Life is a Sacred Text

Life is a Sacred Text

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Life is a Sacred Text
Life is a Sacred Text
Characters as Symbols, People as Symbols

Characters as Symbols, People as Symbols

Or: A Defense of Esau

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Sep 13, 2021
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This is Life as a Sacred Text, an expansive, loving, everybody-celebrating, nobody-diminished, justice-centered voyage into one of the world’s most ancient and holy books. We’re working our way through Genesis these days. More about the project here.

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