I worry sometimes that electronic media won't have the durability of good old paper. There are books centuries old you can still read. Why do so many American Jews leave Judaism when say Canadian Jews don't? The inability of Americans for example, to learn Hebrew is a sort of intellectual scandal in one way because Judaism really does have a sacred language. Second reader question, do I have to believe in God? Do you, Tyler? All of these conversations, simple now, is the great end. No one will know.
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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