40.40 THANK YOU!


This should have gone out earlier this morning.  But, well, I forgot to schedule it.
With love,
-RB
 

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The 77% Weekly
The 40/52-weeks-a-year, quick-reading, thought-lingering, spiritual-religious newsletter.

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40/40
From the desk of Rabbi Brian

Thank you.


If one of the hallmarks of a spiritual-religious life is a sense of gratitude, I feel like a spiritual-religious super-star… why? Because the deep gratitude I have to all of you who have supported this outside-the-box approach to religion.

Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.

Thank you for your e-mails of support.

Thank you for telling your friends about ROTB.

And, thank you for your financial contributions.

A special thank to those who made financial contributions to Religion-Outside-The-Box in 2009: (Somewhat in order of donation)

Anonymous · David S. Thompson
· Lynne Stewart · Dallas & Shannon Sonnier · Joel Rachelson
· Mickey Littmann · Norm & Joan Marks · Tammy Matz & Daniel Millner · Jacqueline
Fletcher · Erin Stevens · Kathleen Wood · Dave
· Priscilla “In Honor of Annie” Linsley
· Jeanne Robinson · Jean Robinson · Robert Beuth
& Terry Frias · Paul and
Rita Heffron · Doug Cox · Donna Milmore · Mary
Van Arsdel · Norm & Joan Marks
· Don Lively & Mitch Blum · Mollie Pier · Peggie
Roast · Kaanta Ananda · Linda Gilroy-Scott · N. Philip · Diane-Colette and Mark
Feldstein · Pat Stamp · Linda Crosfield · Casey Heeg · Peter Ostrow · Brian Dycke · Steve
Krantz · Denise Hand · Michele Doherty · Julie Lang · Rita O’Connor · Roberta
Mitchell · John Stockton · Judy Chrastina · Cindy Tollin · Vicki Cyr · Kymberly Odessky-Eilertson · Cocco Russell · Catherine
Schaus · David Rust · Linden Hilson · Frank
Monaco · Richard Follett · Kevin Holland · Lisanna
Sullivan · Thomas Sanger · Matthew Kibrick · Dr. Caroline Despard · Joy Lemkim
· Robin Shanker & Joe Anzelmo ·
Larry & Anne Lincoln · Judith Keane · Drs.
Marcel & Fabiola Nimni · Paula Brownstein
· Mort Mauer · Linda & Walter Censor · and a few more anonymous ones.

Click here if I omitted you. (I’m terribly embarrassed if that happened.)

Click here if you need a PDF of a contribution form for tax-purposes.
Click here
if you would like to make a tax-exempt contribution to help further
this ministry-rabbiniate’s goal of empowering people to find and be
with (the) God (of their understanding).

Thank you and with love,


Rabbi Brian

With love,

Rabbi Brian

Rabbi Brian

The 77% Weekly


The 77% Weekly: The Religion-Outside-The-Box Newsletter
helps people find and be with (the) God (of their understanding) 40 out of 52 weeks a year.


Why 77%?
Two reasons:
1) 40/52 = 0.76923. The newsletter is sent every Monday except the last of each month.
2) In school 77% was a passing grade and ROTB is delighted to remind you that life isn’t graded.


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