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. Hello, and welcome back to chutzpah.

Real life lived better, where each week we apply Jewish tradition and the Maxwell House Haggata

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 Hannah Rosen and my mother uses the actual Maxwell House Haggata, which I could probably

sell on some Jewish version of Camp eBay for a lot of money, if any of you are interested.

Wow, that is actually impressive. Yeah. It's comically extra Jewish. Like,

you see it, you're like, oh, it's the Maxwell House. God, it's going to be some bullshit.

And it's like, you know, written by some Orthodox rabbi. I have no idea, like, whose idea is it?

How did it come together? Hannah, my question for you is the following.

Yes.

We have on Passover four children.

We have the wise child.

We have the wicked child.

We have the simple or unblemish child and the one who does not know how to ask.

Which one are you?

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