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I'm your host, Daniel Avery, and with me in the studio this week is Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, the author of a bunch of books.

Her newest is on repentance and repair,

making amends in an unapologetic world. We'll be out this fall. She serves as scholar in residence at National Council of Jewish Women and has a justice-focused Bible substack called Life is a Sacred

Text. Donya, welcome to the show. Hi. Thank you for having me. I am so pleased to have you. And I love the just sort of like no nonsense bio move of just like, it's a bunch of books. Don't worry about it. Like, we're not going to name them all. We don't have time. I don't know. You know, if you like feminism and God's stuff, you can go Google me.

I don't know.

Yeah, exactly.

It's just like, don't worry about it.

Some.

Well, I am very much looking forward to taking that sort of approach to our questions today,

which are sort of all over the place.

But I think are all like a little bit on the longer and thornier side, which I'm very excited to get a

chance to kind of like spend a lot of time kind of thinking about like, well, you have a lot of

options here. I wonder which one is the best. There's some intriguing possibilities here. I'm not going to lie.

There are, yeah. Would you mind reading our first letter, which might be the most intriguing of them all?

I would be delighted to. Subject. Frustrated with fiancé's friends.

The only drawback to being engaged to the most incredible woman in the universe is that

she can find the worth in every person, so she has a group of friends that I really don't like.

They're not bigots or anything. We just have incompatible personalities, and it gets more awkward and

obvious to everyone but my fiancé.

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