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. Welcome back to Hutzpah, Real Life Lived Better, where each week we apply Jewish tradition and a little bit of sibling rivalry to talk about something that is live in our lives.

I'm Rabbi Shira Stutman.

And I'm Hannah Rosen.

And Shira, I have some bad news for you.

Oh, no, what?

This is our last episode of the season.

Well, I feel like of the season is the core phrase of that sentence. We will be back. We will be back. It's just going to be a little while. We're going to, you know, look through all the letters you've been sending in, keep them coming, figure out what we're going to do for next season.

And, but I am going to miss you, Hannah.

I'm going to do for next season.

But I am going to miss you, Hannah.

I'm going to miss you, too.

The good news is that in this episode, like all of the final episodes of our season, I get to be the child who doesn't know how to ask a question or the child who knows nothing.

It's my Torah study.

I get to go to Yashiva. One day in the new season, Hanna goes to Yashiva. It's so much fun. It is so much fun. Right. I think we need to be really clear. It's not that you don't know anything. You actually know a tremendous amount. And it's because of all your knowledge that your questions are so deep and incisive and everyone is so lucky to hear them. Ah, right. As long as we're in agreement there. But before we get to

the good stuff, I do just want to take a minute to thank all of our fabulous donors. We are in the

season of giving. And I got to tell you, chutzpahd lives or dies by the people who donate to it, and that is you,

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