Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
@theradr.bsky.social
Rabbi/award-winning author.
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Life is a Sacred Text is about truth & transformation, with ancient stories serving as mirrors & lights. Collective liberation. Everybody-celebratory.
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General note: If you have a question/objection to a skeet, good general practice is to check to ensure it's not addressed downthread &/or in the piece, if there's a link. You know?
General note: If you have a question/objection to a skeet, good general practice is to check to ensure it's not addressed downthread &/or in the piece, if there's a link. You know?
Today's Ask The Clergy Jamboree was a whopper, with everything from tech ethics to busy-people spiritual practice suggestions to knowing when to take care of yourself vs fight for others (on a few different levels, this one) and so much more:
three rabbis and a minister walk into a Q&A
The ethics of AI? Staying safe & being a safe haven for others! Disability-adapting spiritual practice? How to tell a pork-loving spouse you're Jew-curious? Much more!
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January 1, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Today's Ask The Clergy Jamboree was a whopper, with everything from tech ethics to busy-people spiritual practice suggestions to knowing when to take care of yourself vs fight for others (on a few different levels, this one) and so much more:
Reposted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
@theradr.bsky.social's periodic ask the rabbis (and a minister) is so good; people asked great questions, and the answerable have answers and the unanswerable have suggestions www.lifeisasacredtext.com/three-rabbis...
three rabbis and a minister walk into a Q&A
The ethics of AI? Staying safe & being a safe haven for others! Disability-adapting spiritual practice? How to tell a pork-loving spouse you're Jew-curious? Much more!
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM
@theradr.bsky.social's periodic ask the rabbis (and a minister) is so good; people asked great questions, and the answerable have answers and the unanswerable have suggestions www.lifeisasacredtext.com/three-rabbis...
Reposted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
2025 is nearly over and good riddance! The things I am going to carry over to 2026 are:
1. Rejoicing as a communal activity (thanks @theradr.bsky.social for this!).
2. Using ring theory for anti-trans news (care in/dump out).
3. Writing a monthly card to my friend as a secular homily on feelings.
1. Rejoicing as a communal activity (thanks @theradr.bsky.social for this!).
2. Using ring theory for anti-trans news (care in/dump out).
3. Writing a monthly card to my friend as a secular homily on feelings.
January 1, 2026 at 12:49 AM
2025 is nearly over and good riddance! The things I am going to carry over to 2026 are:
1. Rejoicing as a communal activity (thanks @theradr.bsky.social for this!).
2. Using ring theory for anti-trans news (care in/dump out).
3. Writing a monthly card to my friend as a secular homily on feelings.
1. Rejoicing as a communal activity (thanks @theradr.bsky.social for this!).
2. Using ring theory for anti-trans news (care in/dump out).
3. Writing a monthly card to my friend as a secular homily on feelings.
Reposted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Hey, nourish yourself with some Good Things:
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Good Things
a combo platter of things to read, hear, see and watch
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December 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hey, nourish yourself with some Good Things:
(and only two more days to get 20% off a House of Study subscription, here: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/2025)
(and only two more days to get 20% off a House of Study subscription, here: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/2025)
❤️🔥
I think @theradr.bsky.social's book "On Repentance and Repair" might be the most important book published in the 2020s thus far.
I'm really enjoying Abby Phillip's new biography of Jesse Jackson, if more standard political history is up your alley.
And the content is heavy, but
I'm really enjoying Abby Phillip's new biography of Jesse Jackson, if more standard political history is up your alley.
And the content is heavy, but
December 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
❤️🔥
Hey, nourish yourself with some Good Things:
(and only two more days to get 20% off a House of Study subscription, here: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/2025)
(and only two more days to get 20% off a House of Study subscription, here: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/2025)
Good Things
a combo platter of things to read, hear, see and watch
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hey, nourish yourself with some Good Things:
(and only two more days to get 20% off a House of Study subscription, here: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/2025)
(and only two more days to get 20% off a House of Study subscription, here: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/2025)
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Bad-ass widow = JUDITH (definition)
Most of Judea = JUD
it = IT
the head of Holofernes = H
Judith saved her town in Judea by beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes. For more on Judith, see @theradr.bsky.social.
#eightCrazyCryptics
Most of Judea = JUD
it = IT
the head of Holofernes = H
Judith saved her town in Judea by beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes. For more on Judith, see @theradr.bsky.social.
#eightCrazyCryptics
December 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Bad-ass widow = JUDITH (definition)
Most of Judea = JUD
it = IT
the head of Holofernes = H
Judith saved her town in Judea by beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes. For more on Judith, see @theradr.bsky.social.
#eightCrazyCryptics
Most of Judea = JUD
it = IT
the head of Holofernes = H
Judith saved her town in Judea by beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes. For more on Judith, see @theradr.bsky.social.
#eightCrazyCryptics
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This is MTG'w bill. She personally authored. It's happening now, not in the past.
Spare me her redemption arc.
Spare me her redemption arc.
December 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is MTG'w bill. She personally authored. It's happening now, not in the past.
Spare me her redemption arc.
Spare me her redemption arc.
I hope those observing had a fantastic Christmas, that those observing have the most Kwanzaa blessings ever, and that you all have amazing New Years'.
Here's to a 2026 full of health, safety, care, inspiration, righteous doings, love, joy, connection and solidarity. ❤️🔥
And making meaningful change.
Here's to a 2026 full of health, safety, care, inspiration, righteous doings, love, joy, connection and solidarity. ❤️🔥
And making meaningful change.
December 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I hope those observing had a fantastic Christmas, that those observing have the most Kwanzaa blessings ever, and that you all have amazing New Years'.
Here's to a 2026 full of health, safety, care, inspiration, righteous doings, love, joy, connection and solidarity. ❤️🔥
And making meaningful change.
Here's to a 2026 full of health, safety, care, inspiration, righteous doings, love, joy, connection and solidarity. ❤️🔥
And making meaningful change.
You might not think that a bunch of rabbis sitting around Babylonia / Iraq 1500 years ago have your number--
but they do.
but they do.
animal farm
a few zoological midrashim about being a person
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December 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You might not think that a bunch of rabbis sitting around Babylonia / Iraq 1500 years ago have your number--
but they do.
but they do.
OK friends, going to take myself off this website for a couple of weeks.
Might post a couple of links here or there in the interim but won't be checking mentions.
Merry Christmas / Kwanzaa blessings to those observing, and big Gregorian new year love to you all.
See you on the other side.
xo
Might post a couple of links here or there in the interim but won't be checking mentions.
Merry Christmas / Kwanzaa blessings to those observing, and big Gregorian new year love to you all.
See you on the other side.
xo
December 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
OK friends, going to take myself off this website for a couple of weeks.
Might post a couple of links here or there in the interim but won't be checking mentions.
Merry Christmas / Kwanzaa blessings to those observing, and big Gregorian new year love to you all.
See you on the other side.
xo
Might post a couple of links here or there in the interim but won't be checking mentions.
Merry Christmas / Kwanzaa blessings to those observing, and big Gregorian new year love to you all.
See you on the other side.
xo
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December 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Here's the link to give YOURSELF the gift of Life is a Sacred Text--
This year we're moving into how ancient prophetic wisdom can give us the personal and communal tools we need to meet this moment in history--
get deep deep dives, monthly Zoom Salons, access to 4 1/2 years of archives + more:
This year we're moving into how ancient prophetic wisdom can give us the personal and communal tools we need to meet this moment in history--
get deep deep dives, monthly Zoom Salons, access to 4 1/2 years of archives + more:
Reposted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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"DHS has a systematic policy of threatening people who follow ICE or DHS agents to record their activities with detentions, arrests, and violence, and agents have already chased, detained, arrested, charged, struck, and shot at people who follow them." www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists
A free country must have an absolute wall of protection for those who record government actions.
www.cato.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"DHS has a systematic policy of threatening people who follow ICE or DHS agents to record their activities with detentions, arrests, and violence, and agents have already chased, detained, arrested, charged, struck, and shot at people who follow them." www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
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Update: link above no longer works but the full segment has been uploaded to the Internet Archive with torrent link.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Update: link above no longer works but the full segment has been uploaded to the Internet Archive with torrent link.
Reposted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
Reposted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Military $ + US interests in the Middle East. White supremacy—> both try to send all Jews there & do Palestinian genocide.
Christian apocalypse stuff:
War of Gog + Magog, supersessionism etc. more here:
Christian apocalypse stuff:
War of Gog + Magog, supersessionism etc. more here:
December 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Military $ + US interests in the Middle East. White supremacy—> both try to send all Jews there & do Palestinian genocide.
Christian apocalypse stuff:
War of Gog + Magog, supersessionism etc. more here:
Christian apocalypse stuff:
War of Gog + Magog, supersessionism etc. more here:
Reposted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
A super helpful concise primer on the long and many-layered history of antisemitism. It's useful not just for the history, but to help recognize the (sometimes indirect, dog-whistled) signs of antisemitic tropes.
"Blame the Jews, not me!" has been how those in power have gotten away with their bullshit for centuries and centuries--
"Scapegoat and distract while we rob the bank, exploit the masses, prove useless in the face of pandemics + natrual disasters"
has been the MO for a long, long time, friends.
"Scapegoat and distract while we rob the bank, exploit the masses, prove useless in the face of pandemics + natrual disasters"
has been the MO for a long, long time, friends.
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A super helpful concise primer on the long and many-layered history of antisemitism. It's useful not just for the history, but to help recognize the (sometimes indirect, dog-whistled) signs of antisemitic tropes.
Reposted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
anyway more people need to read @theradr.bsky.social 's "On Repentance and Repair"
December 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
anyway more people need to read @theradr.bsky.social 's "On Repentance and Repair"
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The video has been taken down from YouTube. You can still download it here: is.gd/paU8Ko
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The video has been taken down from YouTube. You can still download it here: is.gd/paU8Ko
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December 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🚨BIG JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨
@jewishcurrents.bsky.social is looking for a new editor-in-chief (now that the LEGENDARY Arielle Angel is stepping back to be an editor-at-large):
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A few billionaires control things.
Money has ALWAYS controlled things.
Sometimes it's been the monarchy, the Church, etc.
Notably, none of the people you named are Jews.
A cabal of Jews do not, have never, controlled the world.
The conspiracy theory exists to detract from those in actual power.
Money has ALWAYS controlled things.
Sometimes it's been the monarchy, the Church, etc.
Notably, none of the people you named are Jews.
A cabal of Jews do not, have never, controlled the world.
The conspiracy theory exists to detract from those in actual power.
@theradr.bsky.social Hi Rabbi - your piece on anti-semitism is a wonderful resource. Question you may have addressed before.
How should we think abt the idea that a handful of billionaires (Musk, Thiel, Trump, Putin, etc) control the world, which is so similar to the anti-semitic conspiracy theory?
How should we think abt the idea that a handful of billionaires (Musk, Thiel, Trump, Putin, etc) control the world, which is so similar to the anti-semitic conspiracy theory?
December 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A few billionaires control things.
Money has ALWAYS controlled things.
Sometimes it's been the monarchy, the Church, etc.
Notably, none of the people you named are Jews.
A cabal of Jews do not, have never, controlled the world.
The conspiracy theory exists to detract from those in actual power.
Money has ALWAYS controlled things.
Sometimes it's been the monarchy, the Church, etc.
Notably, none of the people you named are Jews.
A cabal of Jews do not, have never, controlled the world.
The conspiracy theory exists to detract from those in actual power.
Reposted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
Reposted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
