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Hello and welcome back to big mood little mood. I'm your host Daniel Avery and with me in

this studio this week is Rabbi Daniel Ruttenberg, the author of a bunch of books. Her newest is

on repentance and repair making amends in an unapologetic world. We'll be up this fall. She serves

as scholar in residence at National Council of Jewish Women and has a justice focused

Bible sub-stack called Life is a Sacred Text. Daniel, welcome to the show.

Hi, thank you for having me. I am so pleased to have you, and I love the just sort of like

no nonsense bio move of just like it's a bunch of books. Don't worry about it. Like

we're not going to name them all this. We don't have time. I don't know. If you

like feminism and God's stuff, you can go Google me. I don't know. Yeah, exactly. It's just like

don't worry about it. Some. Well, I am very much looking forward to taking that sort of approach to

our questions today, which are sort of all over the place. But I think are all like

a little bit on the longer and thorny side, which I'm very excited to get a chance to kind of like

spend a lot of time kind of thinking about like, well, you have a lot of options here. I wonder which

one is the best. There's an intriguing possibilities here. Not gonna lie. There are. Yeah, would you

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