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Rabbi Ruti Regan

@rutiregan.bsky.social

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Feminist rabbi. I like democracy and inclusive education. #ParshaChat

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · Feb 21

My heart broke on October 7th.

On Election Night, the broken pieces of my heart froze.

And… I’m alive, and those of us who are alive have obligations.

We have to find a way forward, somehow.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah. I feel similarly.

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 8h

I’ll believe it when I see it, but I hope this is true.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 9h

BREAKING: Israel and Hamas reach agreement on "first phase" of plan to stop fighting, release hostages and prisoners, Trump says.

Israel, Hamas agree to 'first phase' of plan to end fighting, release hostages, Trump says

President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first Phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

Chag sameach!

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

In the old park, they let the kids flick the light switch for the bull!

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

I probably would just root for the home team except that I find Red Sox fandom unpleasantly intense.

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, that’s a good point!

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

Do they still put the games on the radio?

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's pretty inevitable that some longshot candidates are going to go viral and people will get excited and donate to them.

And I think those candidates bear some responsibility for what they do with that.

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

This is why those candidates should *really* be splitting their donations somehow.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

I live in the Boston area, so rooting for the Yankees is *way* more drama than I'm interested in. What's wrong with the Astros and Dodgers?

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

If you're struggling with something, it is by definition not easy. If it's hard, it's hard.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

The world is wide and it's full of people doing amazing things, mundane-but-important things, and people doing medium things.

I want to care about that.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

If you ever get the chance to learn from Rabbi Wendy Amsellem, take it. She is amazing.

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

I should probably find out who is on the team I want to root for, right?

That changes from time to time but also has some continuity, right?

Like, they don't re-form the teams every year but new players get added or traded?

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

One thing I like about baseball is that it has lore. So maybe I should pick a team and find out about that team's lore?

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

I want to care about who wins enough for it be fun to follow baseball, but not enough that it starts to seem reasonable to riot when my team wins, you know?

(This is why growing up in Chapel Hill has given me a lifelong aversion to basketball fandom.)

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

But the nearest major league team to me is the Boston Red Sox, and rooting for that team seems kind of unpleasant to me.

I don't like it when sports fandom involves actual hatred of the other teams and their fans.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

How do you follow minor league games? Do you have to get a paper in the area that team plays in?

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

For minor leagues, I can root for the Durham Bulls — I went to a lot of their games growing up and it was super fun. (I didn't pay a lot of attention to the actual baseball but I have a lot of fond memories of the baseball-adjacent stuff.)

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

I think another approach to picking a team is that you just root for the team that's where you live or where you grew up?

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

I think I would like to root for the A's because I went to one of their games once as a kid and it was fun, and also because I really like Sesame Street.

This baseball team brought to you by the letter A!

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

When is baseball? How do I watch games?

Does it work to follow a team that isn't nearby where I live?

How do you pick which team?

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

An autistic kind of request, I think: I'm interested in following baseball and being a fan of a team and everything. Could people who know how to baseball give me some advice?

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

I want to build things. I want to help people build things.

That goes better if I remember that other people are doing things worth respecting, and if I seek out things to respect in specific ways.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

I think there's a lot of pressure, sometimes, to focus on contempt and disdain in a way that really crowds out the ability to notice things that are worth respecting.

When we don't notice the worthwhile things that people are already doing, it gets really hard to *help*.

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