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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

Painting of a white astronaut in space, with an aleph underneath him

Ten, Again

Tellin' 'Em What They've Been Told

What the Trees Know

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What the Trees Know

misc essays Featured

On Organizing

time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

the day after

notes on feeling our way into this next chapter

Judean Pillar Figurine

Idol Chatter

What We Talk About When We Talk About False Worship

What's a Little More Demon Torah Among Friends

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What's a Little More Demon Torah Among Friends

just don't offer them blood, ok

“The rabbi dug a trench over the grave of the tzaddik and then lay in it all night, praying and whispering holy names.”

GUEST POST: 🪽😈👹 Let’s Talk about Angels, and Shedim, and Giants

A Pep Talk From the Jewish Monster Hunter

A person stands in one frame, drenched in water, and the other, with fire consuming him

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Water and Fire

Painting of a man in a turban sitting in a chair, looking at a book held by a kneeling man. There are tall candles.

Seeking the History Behind The Mythtory

The Backstory On That Scroll They, Uh, Found That One Time

Two people sitting in a sukkah, one with guitar and kippah and beard, amongst gorgeous art depicting biblical figures

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Be Our Guest

Flowery illuminated manuscript of the opening page of Deuteronomy

Tools for the Long Haul

Wooden sculpture of a book with river stones spiraled inside

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The Book of (Your) Life

“Inscribe us in the Book of Life,” Kotvenu b’sefer he-ḥayyim, Jews pray between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. This comes from a midrash in the Talmud (Rosh Hashana 32b) about our fates in the year to come, but it also brings to mind an equally important question of this

Expressionist-style painting of a person looking at horror at someone killed, house on fire

"...a being whose anguish may reach the heart of God."

October Seventh

A manuscript with a series of interlocking circles with calendar months, weeks, etc.

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Chronograms for the New Year

apple carved to look like a butterfly

Head of the Year

Purple image of an older man and a woman singing with their eyes closed, images super imposed on each other

easier to ask for forgiveness...?

Penitential Prayers and A Family Legacy, Revitalized

Biblically accurate angel with halo and wings and horns and tail

Guest Post: S. Bear Bergman is feeling... inclined

On the yetzers -- the good and evil inclinations in Judaism

the place of all possibility adina allen

the wild, fertile place of all possibility

A dedication stone to Christopher Columbus and STOLEN LAND is graffiti'd on top of it

Jews and Colonialism

tell every truth, push your understanding of power

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

repenting, and, hopefully, repair

a community conversation

Photo of a white masc person with a goatee and a cowboy hat outside, looking pensive

read this instead

a party platter of bites for heart, brain and soul

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!

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