Play Steinberg
Play Steinberg is a creative facilitator, graphic scribe, and Jewish digital storyteller behind Delineate Ink and the webcomic Father. Mother. God., and a guest on Judaism Unbound's Tales of the Unbound.
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Oct 7, 2026
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of.I had a daily reader that I was working with at the time that was based on the weekly parsha, and it was commentary on the parsha through the lens of 12-step recovery.
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So this really beautiful daily reflection, and I read this quote from a rabbi who basically said, "When I was young and full of life and enthusiasm, I thought I had to convert the whole world to God, but I failed.
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And I realized finally I had to convert myself to God, and even at that, I'm failing." And it's a Sunday morning.
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A few weeks later, Play gets baptized in Donner Lake at the church picnic, which also happened to be on Tisha B'Av, a day of lament, fasting, and grief in the Jewish holy day calendar.
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open up that went on for several days where essentially I was surrendering into receiving each line of this song.
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It was as if I had to do a certain amount of God wrestling and handing over of my attachment to self and my attachment to knowing how things are, how things are going to go, how things should be.
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a space of receptivity, of God's love, however you want to conceive of that.
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Of course, in this moment, this was happening in a really Christian and really Jewish container at the same time.
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