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Hello and welcome to Simpler and With More Laughter! You're likely seeing this because you previously followed me on Substack. For a variety of reasons, I have migrated my writing from Substack to Ghost, the service you are reading on now. Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg has elucidated many of

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Dark Night of the Myth

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