As great as the work of tshuvah-- repentance, accountability--sounds to many in theory, when it comes down to it, it can feel intimidating, fraught. Why is this? And what insights about finding our way into the process in our own lives might we be able to apply to cases of systemic or even national repentance work? Please join a lively, interactive discussion with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg about the five steps of tshuvah (according to Maimonides, as she understands him) and the profound possibilities inherent within the tradition's tools for repair.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg is an award-winning author of eight books who now makes her primary writing home at LifeIsASacredText.com.

Her most recent book, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World is a National Jewish Book Award winner and an American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Honor Book. It was hailed by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley as “A must read for anyone navigating the work of justice and healing.”

She has received the Lives of Commitment Award from Auburn Seminary, and the Rabbinic Human Rights Hero Award from the human rights organization T’ruah, was named by Newsweek as a “rabbi to watch,” and as a “faith leader to watch” by the Center for American Progress, and has been a Sunday Washington Post crossword clue (83 Down).