Podcast:
A visit to the dentist reminds Rabbi Brian that complaining about stuff just means he lives in a world with more complaints. Try the 21-day no complaint challenge!
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Podcast:
A visit to the dentist reminds Rabbi Brian that complaining about stuff just means he lives in a world with more complaints. Try the 21-day no complaint challenge!
Video version:

Thoughts on loving our enemies ✧✧✧ Three Saturday Services in a row the group and I interacted around the topic of loving our enemies. Here are some thoughts related to our discussion. ✧✧✧ The “Love your enemies” trope is famously attributed to Jesus — in Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount and elsewhere. > Love your enemies, do good to those

Fall, 2025 I’m sitting in my favorite chair in the living room. The sky is getting darker. It’s almost dusk. I check the time: 4:40 p.m. The dark starts early these days. Especially in the Pacific Northwest. I make a mental note to take my vitamin D in the morning. ✧✧✧ Most weeks I get a bit panicked that I

Beloved reader, I am redoing the rotb.org website. Again. Why am I redoing the website again? Because a website older than (blank) years is (blank minus one) years overdue for a facelift. (The standard is three years for small sites and six years for large sites.) ✧✧✧ While placing into the background a composite grid, 15 wide by five tall,