Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote in his new book, S.I. on Ethics, that the entire burden of the Torah is about what it is to create a free society. David Frum: I think there's a lot of other things that you could just as easily say the Torah was about. He says Heschel is so important not for the content of his thought, but because he can move people with breathtaking prose.
Named one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of our time, Rabbi David Wolpe joins Tyler in a conversation on flawed leaders, Jewish identity in the modern world, the many portrayals of David, what’s missing in rabbinical training, playing chess on the Sabbath, Srugim, Hasidic philosophy, living in Israel and of course, the durability of creation.
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