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. Okay, this is going to be awesome. You have to say, Shehachianu.

Baruch, to Aronah, Echinemalachal,

al-Hachiyanah and kimana andu,

al-zman haze.

Amen.

Hello and welcome back to Chutzpahd,

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

I'm Rabbi Shira Stelman.

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 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.

This week, though, we are going to go, I guess we could say we're going back to regularly scheduled programming.

We're just going to answer ordinary life questions that our listeners sent us over these weeks.

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