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   Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (theradr@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 22:15:31 JST Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

   This moment in history demands much from us. Which means our internal fortifications matter more than ever. The flurry of harm from the WH is a form of shock and awe deliberately meant to destabilize us. They want us too frozen and traumatized to fight back. We must try to stay grounded.

   We must do what we can to stay clear, connected, and whole. (🧵)

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     Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (theradr@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 22:15:24 JST Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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     When we don’t stop to get present in our own bodies, stop to find out what’s happening in our own minds and hearts, we wind up in reactive mode—reacting unconsciously to the feelings we haven’t given ourselves permission to feel.

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     Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (theradr@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 22:15:25 JST Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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     Every time we do something that requires us to be here and now, we take charge of the moment. We remind our thoughts and feelings that we're in the driver's seat and that they can sit quietly in the passenger's seat if they like, but they do not have permission to grab the wheel. 

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     Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (theradr@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 22:15:26 JST Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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     The Sfat Emet, a late 19th c. Hasidic master talks about the relationship between a cistern (a rain barrel) and a wellspring.

     He says as we fill up our respective rain barrels with things that nourish us, we open up a wellspring — an endless, flowing source of love and goodness, and we can draw from it and let it pass through us. In this way, we don’t use ourselves up — we learn to draw from something bigger than us and to utilize and harness that power.

     https://lifeisasacredtext.com/fortify/

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     Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (theradr@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 22:15:27 JST Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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     That practice helps us be grounded in the now — in the breath in our lungs, the offering of our hearts, in the feeling in our body. Maybe it’s your meditation. Your prayer. Your morning writing pages. Your long walks. Your art. Your swimming. Your pottery. Yes, even your parenting, if you can show up in the right frame of mind every once in a while.

     Doing things that fill us up can help us develop another way
     of being. 

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     Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (theradr@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 22:15:28 JST Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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     Maybe you call it "spiritual practice." Maybe you don't. If “God” isn’t your language, maybe words like creativity, intuition, love, or interconnectedness are. What matters is that you have a way to plug in.

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     Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (theradr@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 22:15:29 JST Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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     This is a time to double down on the things that help you plug into yourself, other people, the world, and your place in it, and (if – and only if – this resonates with you) the Big Bigness, the Universe, the divine, the great Everythingness of which we are a part.

     https://lifeisasacredtext.com/fortify (3/🧵)

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     Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (theradr@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 22:15:30 JST Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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     We must find interpersonal supports and space for our inner life. That’s how we will meet today, tomorrow, and beyond with integrity and bravery. (2/🧵)