R' Rachel Barenblat

@velveteenrabbi

Rabbi, writer, mom; author of 70 faces, Waiting to Unfold, Texts to the Holy; blogging as Velveteen Rabbi since 2003. She / her.

Joined February 2009

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  1. 13 hours ago

    "[A]ll this talk about likability is really about submission. Its veiled message to women is obvious: Downplay your intelligence, douse your ambitions, and know your place." Indeed. Thanks, .

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  4. 14 hours ago

    This tweet just shook me to my core. I want to call it beautiful, but that doesn’t seem like the right word. And profound doesn’t seem strong enough. Revelatory maybe? I dunno. I don’t have the right word, but thank you.

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  5. 15 hours ago

    Beautiful, lyrical, heartbreaking, worth reading. Thank you, .

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  6. Jan 3

    The ever-insightful is the only person I know who could find teaching moments in building a gingerbread house.

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  7. Jan 3

    New by at Builders Blog (with sketchnote by !) - Meditations on building a gingerbread house with her kid over winter break, and lessons for building the Jewish future

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  8. Jan 3
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  9. Jan 2

    ICYMI: Opening borders, spiritualizing social justice, rebooting ethics, real Jewish "R&D" -- these are some of the things we see for #2019.

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  10. Jan 2

    Gmorning. Lower your shoulders. They’re by your ears! Rub up against a rock if that’s all you got. We are not starting 2019 this tense Breathe, love

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  11. 31 Dec 2018

    The energy we’re bringing into 2019: All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change. Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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  12. THREAD This is a time of year that people talk a lot about their bodies, so I will remind you: Your body is a wonderous thing. 1/x

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  13. Jan 1

    Opening borders, spiritualizing social justice, rebooting ethics, real Jewish "R&D" -- these are some of the things we see for #2019.

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  14. 30 Dec 2018
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  15. 30 Dec 2018

    This week’s portion talks of renewing leadership for community renewal. We could use some of that right now.

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  16. 30 Dec 2018

    Texts to the Holy, my volume of love poems (to God / to a person?) was published by . I learned to cook a bunch of new things, including kosher feijoada. And I got to jump in the ocean and swim.

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  17. 30 Dec 2018

    "Halakhic gerrymandering" may now be my new favorite phrase. Thanks, Rabbi .

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  18. 30 Dec 2018

    New on Builders Blog, reflections from R' Jennifer Singer and sketchnotes from unpacking this week's parsha as a call to rebuild leadership for community renewal - and to welcome the stranger

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  19. 30 Dec 2018

    Oh holy wow this essay breaks my heart and it is so important. Thank you .

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  20. 30 Dec 2018

    ⁩ A mother and a mystic -- during school vacation “ I feel like my work right now is ... bringing the theology into the parenting and vice versa, glimpsing the unitive from this place of relationship. “

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