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163. How to Make Wrongs Right with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

We Can Do Hard Things

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Is Unity a Euphemism for Forgiveness?

Rabbi Donut: Our country's obsession with forgiveness came at the end of the Civil War when white northerners started preaching, listen guys, we need to forgive the South and we all need to be unified. "It was a way to re-inscribe white supremacy at a moment when it was at risk," he says. Rabbi Donut: This unity is always demanded, nobody's even said they're sorry.

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