Political tensions, anxiety, and loneliness are on the rise.

But problems like these aren't new, and the solutions don't have to be either.

For thousands of years, societies have asked questions about how to live, thrive, and love.

And it was spiritual traditions that offered wisdom and tools to help people find their way.

Tools that science is now discovering offer real benefits. Join me, Dave

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ancient texts for modern times.

We are in the beginning of a new book of the Torah.

Whenever we use my daughter, Isabelle's tagline, I always think of something I once

tweeted, which is that it's trippy to think that everyone who's ever lived lived in

modern times.

Right?

That's true.

Right. Like 3,000 years ago, they weren't like, oh, good morning, ancient times.

Right. They were, hey, we're cutting edge. Look at this rock. Look what I can do with it.

Last night, my husband and I watched the end of Fleischman is in trouble. And among a million other things I could talk about, there's this part where they say,

at this moment, you are as young as you will ever be again. And it's just like, right.

A painful truth. It's a terrible truth. I really hated that line. Yeah, there's no avoiding it.

How was placement? Did he get out of trouble?

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