<![CDATA[She's So Scripture: The Chavurah]]>https://shessoscripture.com/s/the-vaulthttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HPGn!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcc6a6c63-ace6-491e-9156-5a5e994d3445_500x500.pngShe's So Scripture: The Chavurahhttps://shessoscripture.com/s/the-vaultSubstackMon, 31 Aug 2026 18:30:16 GMT<![CDATA[Confessions & Coffee - August Week Five]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/still-believing-week-5https://shessoscripture.com/p/still-believing-week-5Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:00:18 GMT
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You've been trying to carry this alone. Managing the loneliness quietly, faithfully, without anyone who fully understands this specific road.

Week 5 of Still Believing is about finding your people, t…

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]]><![CDATA[The Examined Text - The General, the List and the Door Left Open]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/the-general-the-specifichttps://shessoscripture.com/p/the-general-the-specificFri, 28 Aug 2026 17:00:34 GMT
Illustrated child reaching up toward glowing pizza, tacos, and spaghetti plates on a table, symbolizing a wide-open "anything you want" choice.

A mother once told her son, “You can have anything you want for dinner.”
He grinned. “Anything??”
”Pizza, tacos, or spaghetti. Anything.”
He stared at her for a second, doing the math on what “anything”…

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]]><![CDATA[Mussar - Fear (Yirah)]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-fear-yirahhttps://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-fear-yirahThu, 27 Aug 2026 13:46:58 GMT
A whimsical ink and watercolor illustration of a woman sitting holding a Bible and looking upward and face lifted toward brilliant golden light, rendered in blush pink and cream tones with an expression of overwhelmed wonder.

We’ve made it to the final soul trait in Everyday Holiness. Morinis saved the hardest one to translate for last.

Yirah. The Mussar Institute’s own description says: “No English translation is accurate…

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]]><![CDATA[The Freedom Letter: A Galatians Series Arc One: The Players - Post 1]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/the-freedom-letter-a-galatians-serieshttps://shessoscripture.com/p/the-freedom-letter-a-galatians-seriesTue, 25 Aug 2026 11:04:28 GMT
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The Evidence Room is now closed. At least for the time being anyway! That last case file, Matthew 7:6, pearls before swine, was the final one.

But here is what I have been mulling over for quite a whi…

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]]><![CDATA[Confessions & Coffee - August Week Four: Still Believing]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/confessions-and-coffee-august-week4https://shessoscripture.com/p/confessions-and-coffee-august-week4Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:00:55 GMT
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You have prayed the same prayer for so long you could say it in your sleep. And some days it feels less like faith and more like stubborn refusal to give up.

Wee 4 of Still Believing is about persiste…

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]]><![CDATA[The Examined Text - When Two Words Mean the Whole World]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/what-is-a-merismhttps://shessoscripture.com/p/what-is-a-merismFri, 21 Aug 2026 17:01:03 GMT
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A teacher once asked her class to summarize an entire book using only two words. One student said, “the villain.” The teacher shook her head. “That’s one character, not the whole book.” Another stude…

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]]><![CDATA[Mussar - Faith (Emunah)]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-faith-emunahhttps://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-faith-emunahWed, 19 Aug 2026 17:46:39 GMT
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Hi my Chavurah family!

We just spent a week on bitachon, trust in God in the specific circumstances of your daily life. And now we’re going to go one layer deeper.

Emunah is the foundational conviction…

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]]><![CDATA[The Evidence Room - 'Pearls Before Swine']]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/pearls-before-swinehttps://shessoscripture.com/p/pearls-before-swineTue, 18 Aug 2026 11:02:24 GMT
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The charge: Using this verse as a spiritual permission slip to write people off. “I’m not casting my pearls before swine anymore” has become Christian for “I’m done with you,” and it comes out at the…

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]]><![CDATA[Confessions & Coffee - August Week Three: Still Believing]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/confessions-and-coffee-august-week-3https://shessoscripture.com/p/confessions-and-coffee-august-week-3Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:02:03 GMT
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You've probably lived on both ends of this. The version of you that went quiet to keep the peace, and the version that pushed too hard and created distance instead.

Week 3 of Still Believing is about…

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]]><![CDATA[The Examined Text - Learning to Mark the Page]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/learning-to-mark-the-pagehttps://shessoscripture.com/p/learning-to-mark-the-pageFri, 14 Aug 2026 17:01:50 GMT
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Two students sat in on the same lecture from the same rabbi. One wrote down every word he could catch, as fast as his hand would move. The other wrote down almost nothing, just a handful of questions…

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]]><![CDATA[Mussar - Trust (Bitachon)]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-trust-bitachonhttps://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-trust-bitachonWed, 12 Aug 2026 17:02:01 GMT
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Bitachon, the Hebrew word for trust, is specifically about trust in God. The Mussar tradition says that most of our anxiety comes from drawing conclusions about our lives from incomplete information …

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]]><![CDATA[The Evidence Room - "Synagogue of Satan"]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/synagogue-of-satanhttps://shessoscripture.com/p/synagogue-of-satanTue, 11 Aug 2026 11:00:30 GMT
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I want to say something before we even open the file on this one because it is personal to me. This phrase lives inside a long, documented history of anti-Jewish rhetoric, and it’s been revived in mo…

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]]><![CDATA[Confessions & Coffee - August Week Two: Still Believing]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/confessions-and-coffee-august-week-twohttps://shessoscripture.com/p/confessions-and-coffee-august-week-twoSun, 09 Aug 2026 17:01:54 GMT
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Maybe, somewhere along the way, you have started loving the people in your life a little more strategically than you meant to. It could be that you’ve been knowingly waiting for openings to slip in s…

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]]><![CDATA[The Examined Text - Building the Father Case]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/the-examined-text-binyan-av-exodus-22https://shessoscripture.com/p/the-examined-text-binyan-av-exodus-22Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:01:55 GMT
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This week we’re learning how the sages take a handful of cases in the Torah and use them to build pattern for governing situations the text never names outright. There’s a name for this move. Binyan …

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]]><![CDATA[Mussar - Responsibility: Achrayut]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-responsibility-achrayuthttps://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-responsibility-achrayutWed, 05 Aug 2026 17:01:27 GMT
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Cain answered God’s question with a sassier question, which is a bold move when you’re talking to the God who watched you do it. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” God never says yes. He doesn’t have to.

Thi…

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]]><![CDATA[The Evidence Room - One Taken, One Left]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/one-taken-one-lefthttps://shessoscripture.com/p/one-taken-one-leftTue, 04 Aug 2026 11:03:46 GMT
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There’s a verse that has sent more Christians sprinting through their houses looking for family members than any other passage in the Bible.

You know the one. Someone’s mom went to the store without t…

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]]><![CDATA[Confessions & Coffee - August Week One: Still Believing]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/confessions-and-coffee-august-week-onehttps://shessoscripture.com/p/confessions-and-coffee-august-week-oneSun, 02 Aug 2026 17:00:43 GMT
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This month in Confessions & Coffee we’re talking about one of the loneliest roads a believing man or woman can walk. What it’s like when faith is yours deeply and personally but the people you love m…

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]]><![CDATA[The Examined Text - The Measure You Use]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/the-measure-you-measurehttps://shessoscripture.com/p/the-measure-you-measureFri, 31 Jul 2026 17:01:44 GMT
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A student came to his teacher in distress. “My brother wronged me years ago and heaven has done nothing.” The teacher said, “Open your Torah to Jacob. Count the years between the stolen blessing and …

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]]><![CDATA[Mussar - Lovingkindness: Chesed]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-lovingkindness-chesedhttps://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-lovingkindness-chesedWed, 29 Jul 2026 17:01:44 GMT
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Here’s something worth thinking about: you can be a perfectly nice person and have almost no chesed at all.

Chesed is the Hebrew word usually translated as loving-kindness, but Morinis says that trans…

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]]><![CDATA[The Evidence Room - The Love Chapter Gets Cross-Examined]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/the-evidence-room-the-love-chapterhttps://shessoscripture.com/p/the-evidence-room-the-love-chapterTue, 28 Jul 2026 11:03:41 GMT
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If Scripture had a wedding circuit, 1 Corinthians 13 would be the most requested bridesmaid on it. Read from a hundred thousand programs. It’s been coss-stitched onto more throw pillows than anyone c…

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