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

Desteno, to explore how we can all use this wisdom, whatever our beliefs. Listen to How God

Works from PRX, wherever you listen to podcasts. Head's up, listeners. This episode contains

reference to intimate partner violence.

Hello, and welcome to chutzpad, real life lived better, where each week we apply Jewish tradition

and a motel six Gideon's Bible to answer a letter sent by you, the listener, about an issue that

is live in your life. I'm Rabbi Shira Stutman. And I'm Hanna Rosen. I feel like really lesser

rabbi because I feel like I don't have an honorific. Do you think we can come up with an honorific for me?

Like if you're Rabbi Shira Stubman and I'm just merely Hanna Rosen, it kind of puts me on the back foot always, you know? Can we call you best selling journalist Hannah Rosen? That feels the great. I'm the great Hanna Rosen, but I need like an official honorific. Like, is there a Jewish equivalent of

right honorable? That sounds pretty good. Well, you could be a morahana, like a teacher

Hana. Oh, mora chana. That sounds like that's okay, but it makes me sound like a Hebrew school teacher.

Like you should have a few hairs growing out of your chin and like just like every Hebrew school. Sorry. I mean, nowadays there are all sorts of honorifics. Like you could become a cohenit, which is like a priestess. But that's sort of like a contemporary term. You could be a Magid, which is like a storyteller, which is kind of what you are.

Oh, I want that.

I want that.

I want to be, I'm Rabbi Shere Stubman and I'm Magid.

Sana Rosen, who become a truly obscure Jewish podcast.

Anyway, okay, what was your question for me, Shira?

I know you have one blend.

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