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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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Rabbi/award-winning author. 🌱Sacred + justice newsletter (100% NAZI-FREE!): LifeIsASacredText.com Newest 📚ON REPENTANCE & REPAIR: MAKING AMENDS IN AN UNAPOLOGETIC WORLD. 💥Collective liberation or bust. she/her

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jan 19

Hi! This (below) is where most of my writing happens now. Subscribe for free or more (link in top menu & everywhere).

General note: If you have a question/objection to a skeet, good general practice is to check to ensure it's not addressed downthread &/or in the piece, if there's a link. You know?

Life is a Sacred Text

Life is a Sacred Text is about truth & transformation, with ancient stories serving as mirrors & lights. Collective liberation. Everybody-celebratory.

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AddleBONES @addleben.bsky.social · 33m

I'm a doctor and recommend everyone get immunized against COVID and influence unless they know they're allergic to some vaccine component. If anyone needs a recommendation (standard caveat, I'm not *your* doctor).

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 5m

a black and white drawing of two stick figures

Alt: a black and white drawing of two stick figures high fiving

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 47m

*Doctor's, yes yes

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 1h

Garfield hates ICE more than he loves lasagna

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1h

Portland is showing the way. Hail Portland

FOX 12 Oregon facebook post screenshot. Headline reads "Latest Updates: 2 more arrested near Portland ICE facility Saturday." Picture shows people outsid the ICE facility in blow-up costumes, L-R: Squidward, Mr. Potato Head, not sure but it's a diapered person in a trucker hat, Garfield, again not sure, banana, lobster

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 50m

Don’t forget to get vaxxed in all the ways you can if you’re remotely able.

Herd immunity is community care!

Some states will ask if you’re part of the “recommended demographic”; if you’re not in a state that requires a doctors note, you can just say yes & walk in. If you are—> see your doctor.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 58m

Imho he let Vance go on too long and should have interrupted him when he tried to pivot but this was probably the way to keep drama down and maintain the moral upper hand. So ?

🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 5h

More of this. Cut the mic, cut the bs

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1h

Yale Law must be so proud right now.

Then again, it also produced Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, so 🤷

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1h

My issue is rendering Hebrew into anything appropriately capturing the nuances of the verse for people who don’t know Hebrew

But Thanks Anyway

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Eel-AIEEEE @elindur.at.app.wafrn.net · 3h

Father Larry Dowling dropped the most damning statement I think I've ever seen from a catholic on this whole situation (save for the Pope's words on it):

A quote from Father Larry Dowling's post about being denied access to detainees. It reads "No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ."

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3h

sometimes translation makes me want to claw a wall

i have so much respect for people who do this as their job

ugh the choices available to me for this specific thing now are hateful

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3h

Ah yes tell me again about that brown-skinned refugee you worship, Christian nationalists

skippyoz @skippyoz.bsky.social · 1d

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility

Meanwhile, two days after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 6h

It me!

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Spryte M. ♿🏳️‍🌈♀️🎮✍🏻🪆🧩🦅 @sprytemagnus.bsky.social · 1d

@theradr.bsky.social I believe this is your gem of wisdom

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 17h

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 6h

a woman wearing glasses and a shirt that says ' from do ' on it

Alt: A woman is giving quite a loook to the viewer like oh come on

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

a brown bear is sitting in a field behind a wire fence

Alt: a brown bear is sitting in a field behind a wire fence waving

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

the social media of everyone marginalized in any way whatsoever, in a nutshell:

פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 2d

In the replies: “Are you sure that's antisemitic? Can you please explain it to me? That's not really convincing, can you try again?”
In other replies: “Jews run all the media companies, and their Bronze Age beliefs are cruel and scary to all of us.”

Step. On. 🐍

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The Big Bad Wolf @tbbw1.bsky.social · 2d

"When you strike The Frog with pepper balls, it [splits into a swarm of frogs or calls up all the other frogs in the land]."

There's some debate over the text. 🤣🐺

The Portland frog standing defiant against tyranny.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

For those just tuning in: www.sefaria.org/sheets/54446...

That's One Big Frog! | Sefaria

www.sefaria.org

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

the Portland Protests, annotated

פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 2d

Frogs? Talmudic
Toads? Not Talmudic
Chickens? Talmudic
Turkeys? Not Talmudic
Weasels? Talmudic
Ferrets? Not Talmudic
Camels? Talmudic
Elephants? Eh, hardly Talmudic
Big Bird? Very, very Talmudic

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 2d

You know what happens if you come at a giant frog

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

hey, white friends, in case you thought being white and normie lookin' was gonna keep you safe from our fascist secret police, it will not.

it matters that they are coming for ANYBODY

we must fight their stealing ANYONE

AND: all our liberations are, as always, intertwined.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

As it happens, my next free essay coming out is actually on this *exact passage* (deut 21) & how rabbis 2000 years ago engaged in radical textual activism towards justice to legislate it out of existence, and what that means for us today--subscribe to get it when it comes out if you want---

Life is a Sacred Text

Truth, transformation, & collective liberation; ancient stories serve as mirrors & lights.

www.lifeisasacredtext.com

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

This is horrific. White nationalist racist trying to claim that lynching is a commandment, yet another perversion of sacred texts for the disgusting white supremacist patriarchal capitalist imperialist colonial (aka kyriarchal) agenda.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

My god not a single person on the internet can read for subtlety or understatement, it’s so depressing

I refuse to write a listicle or create an infographic every time I want to make an offhand observation

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