Danya Ruttenberg

United States

Rabbi, award-winning author. Newest 📚 ON REPENTANCE & REPAIR. 🌱 Spirituality + justice missives, Life is a Sacred Text💥Collective liberation or bust. she/her

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We Have Always Been Here

2 months ago | lifeisasacredtext.com | Danya Ruttenberg |Erev-Rabbi Benjamin Luks-Morgan

This is Life as a Sacred Text š±, an everybody-celebrating, justice-centered voyage into ancientstories that canilluminateour own lives. Itās runon a nonprofit, so itās 100% NAZI FREE. More about the project here, and to subscribe, go here: Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. The Trump Administration is trying to erase the existence of trans people right now.
fortify inside

Feb 3, 2025 | lifeisasacredtext.com | Danya Ruttenberg

This is Life as a Sacred Text đ±, an everybody-celebrating, justice-centered voyage into ancientstories that canilluminateour own lives. Itâs runon a nonprofit, so itâs 100% NAZI FREE. More about the project here, and to subscribe, go here: Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. You may be familiar with this famous 1941 Dorothy Thompson essay entitled, "Who Goes Nazi?" (If you haven't (re)read it in the last couple of weeks, please do.
Legacy

Jan 30, 2025 | lifeisasacredtext.com | Danya Ruttenberg

You may have seen a few public statements recently. Like Nobel Prize winning-economist Paul Krugman, who recently left his column at the New York Times after 25 years, saying that unlike in years past, in 2024“The editing became extremely intrusive. It was very much toning down of my voice...
Feel. Then Do.

Jan 20, 2025 | lifeisasacredtext.com | Sonia Sanchez |Danya Ruttenberg

This is Life as a Sacred Text 🌱, an everybody-celebrating, justice-centered voyage into ancientstories that canilluminateour own lives. It‘s runon a nonprofit, so it’s 100% NAZI FREE. More about the project here, and to subscribe, go here: Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. So, I said that I was moving to every other week newsletters.
this, instead

Jan 13, 2025 | lifeisasacredtext.com | Danya Ruttenberg

This is Life as a Sacred Text ūüĆĪ, an everybody-celebrating, justice-centered voyage into ancientstories that canilluminateour own lives. It‚Äės runon a nonprofit, so it‚Äôs 100% NAZI FREE. More about the project here, and to subscribe, go here: Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.
To Jerusalem

Dec 8, 2024 | lifeisasacredtext.com | Danya Ruttenberg

This is Life as a Sacred Text đą, an everybody-celebrating, justice-centered voyage into ancientstories that canilluminateour own lives. Itâs runon a nonprofit, so itâs 100% NAZI FREE. More about the project here, and to subscribe, go here: Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. Do you remember when we started talking about the origins of Deuteronomy, and how King Josiah, who ruled Judea from ca.
On Vending Machine Theology

Dec 1, 2024 | lifeisasacredtext.com | Danya Ruttenberg

This is Life as a Sacred Text đ±, an everybody-celebrating, justice-centered voyage into ancientstories that canilluminateour own lives. Itâs runon a nonprofit, so itâs 100% NAZI FREE. More about the project here, and to subscribe, go here: Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. There's a lot of what's at risk of being understood as what I call Vending Machine Theology in Deuteronomy. A lot.
worlds that germinate

Nov 28, 2024 | lifeisasacredtext.com | Danya Ruttenberg

If you're in the United States, today's a national holiday. It is (as so many US holidays are– and so many holidays generally, honestly)... emotionally layered. It's a time of love and family and togetherness for many. A time of, well, complicated, fraught family stuff and/or loneliness for many. And it's a communal celebration with the stories of colonialism and Indigenous genocide baked in. That's a lot.
the right and the good

Nov 24, 2024 | lifeisasacredtext.com | Danya Ruttenberg

This is Life as a Sacred Text ğ±, an everybody-celebrating, justice-centered voyage into ancientstories that canilluminateour own lives. Itâs runon a nonprofit, so itâs 100% NAZI FREE. More about the project here, and to subscribe, go here: Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. A lot of times, when non-Jews (well, OK, especially a certain strain of Christian, for Gospel Reasons) talk about Jews. they talk about us in relation to Jewish law, halakha.
Ten, Again

Nov 17, 2024 | lifeisasacredtext.com | Danya Ruttenberg

This is Life as a Sacred Text ğ±, an everybody-celebrating, justice-centered voyage into ancientstories that canilluminateour own lives. Itâs runon a nonprofit, so itâs 100% NAZI FREE. More about the project here, and to subscribe, go here: Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.