Thursday

we are holiness and stardust

cosmic love

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

Jan 9, 2025 • 8 min read

(Full shot of a region in deep space, likely a nebula, characterized by vibrant colors and a complex structure. The colors are primarily shades of deep purple, pink, vibrant blue, and orange-tan hues, interspersed with vast stretches of dark, inky space dotted with numerous stars of varying brightness.)

🔈 Reminder: the website version of this post, found at LifeIsaSacredText.com, offers an audio (text-to-speech) reader.

Here's a playlist of galactic music that I found; feel welcome, if you'd like, to put something you like on and listen to it while you read this post.

I dunno about you, but I love, love, love the gifts that the Hubble telescope photography has been giving us.

And, yes, the image of the Laniakea Supercluster, suggested to me by my friend Laura mere moments before I sent out the email after the election, prompted a whole other set of rabbitholing.

I'm hardly the first to draw many of the connections, below, though a couple of the parallels are my original observations (as far as I know?). But what's the saying from Kohelet/Eccelesiastes? There's really nothing new under the sun.

And what a glorious sun it is. And what glorious things there are underneath it, including inside and within us.

Let's start here:

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