
[Unedited] Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Isaiah the Poet Laureate of Hope
i think the most vibrant contribution to civil society is having a vital, strong, particular identity. When an indian novelist is writing from the you know, that is where all of us can relate to him or her. It's this bland, plastic, synthetic universal which makes flat uninteresting and essentially uncreative. And i call isaiah the poet laureate of hope. He delivers his prophecies, the so particular to that fait, that place, that time. But it's the particularity of isaiah that spoke to martin luther. You know, i don't know why it is how it is, but it's the authentic, the unique, the different...
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