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

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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

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Toda and on to the show.

Okay, this is going to be awesome.

You have to say, Shahjianu.

Baruch, to Arana, Oh, Hina, al-Hashayana and al-Hiazman haze.

Amen.

Hello, and welcome back to Khutzpahd, where we use Jewish tradition and our left-wing Ivy League educations to answer your listener questions about real life.

I'm Rabbi Shira Stetman.

I'm Hannah Rosen, and I do not have an Ivy League education, but I'm happy for everyone to think I did.

No, I'm not being like, okay, I'm not being like, you know, I went to Stanford, so I'm not claiming like, I'm just saying, technically speaking.

I'm a kid from Queens who went all the way to California, but not to be the Ivy League, if it matters to anybody, which it doesn't.

So as listeners know, we've taken a lot of questions recently about the war in Israel and Gaza.

We're happy to take more questions.

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