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Joan discusses how to plan your Passover Seder in New York City, highlighting three notable restaurants. Talia's Steakhouse and Bar offers a traditional kosher Passover experience with communal Seders at their restaurant and the Jewish Center. Bubby Tribeca provides a non-kosher comfort food Seder for a relaxed, self-led meal. Lastly, Mark's off Madison caters to foodies with a gourmet take on traditional Jewish American dishes, and an extensive Passover catering menu. Joan provides details on the menus, costs, and reservation information for each venue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rabbi Josh Franklin of Jewish Center of the Hamptons joins Gianna Volpe on The WLIW-FM Heart of The East End amidst the portion of 2024 End-Of-Year Matching Board Challenge where all donations made to the WLIW-FM website or by phone at 800-262-0717 are triple-matched dollar-for-dollar-for-dollar up to our $100,000 goal through Dec. 31Listen to the Chanukah playlist on Apple Music
In this engaging conversation between host John Pinna and Rabbi Josh Franklin of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, they explore the intersection of faith, humor, and community leadership. The discussion begins with Rabbi Franklin's personal journey to becoming a rabbi despite initially resisting following in his father's footsteps, then moves into his current work serving both local and global Jewish communities through digital engagement. A significant portion of the conversation focuses on the rich tradition of Jewish humor, its historical roots in religious texts like the Talmud, and its role as a coping mechanism for trauma and anxiety throughout Jewish history. The rabbi shares several jokes and anecdotes to illustrate how humor has helped Jewish communities navigate everything from ancient hardships to contemporary challenges, including recent tensions surrounding Israel and rising antisemitism. The conversation also touches on interfaith relationships in the Hamptons community and the delicate balance between appropriate and inappropriate religious humor, concluding with insights into how humor can serve as a pressure release valve during difficult times. Rabbi Josh Franklin heads the Jewish Center of the Hamptons (East Hampton) as the Senior Rabbi. In his seven years on East End, he has helped revitalize and grow the Jewish community through engaging programming, transformative classes, inspiring worship, and welcoming community outreach. Hundreds of people flock to his community for Shabbat on the Beach each week over the summer for an innovative and magical prayer experience. All year round, he draws people to the Jewish Center of the Hamptons to hear from him and learn with him. In addition to his role at the synagogue, Rabbi Franklin contributes widely to the greater Hamptons community. He co-writes a bi-monthly column in Dan's Papers called “Hamptons Soul,” discussing issues of spirituality and justice in the Hamptons. He has sat on numerous local committees including the East Hampton Police Reform Committee and the Adolescent Mental Health and Substance Use Task Force. He also sits on the board of L'Arche Long Island, a community center and home for adults with developmental disabilities. Rabbi Franklin was named to the 2021 Schneps Media Powerlist, honoring the movers and shakers on the East End of Long Island. Dans Papers named Rabbi Franklin one of its “People of the Year: East Enders Who Made the World A Better Place in 2022.” https://www.rabbijoshfranklin.com/ Special Guest: Josh Franklin.
Talia Dunietz is an American-Israeli serving as the U.S. Manager at the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation. She oversees daily operations, manages communications with their Polish Director, and collaborates with board members on initiatives. She also handles their outreach efforts, including social media and donor communications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Discuss how language has changed, Rabbi Elie Weinstock of The Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach joins the show, The Rev and Rabbi talk about maturity and how it begins with the acceptance of responsibility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Discuss how language has changed, Rabbi Elie Weinstock of The Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach joins the show, The Rev and Rabbi talk about maturity and how it begins with the acceptance of responsibility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This lecture was delivered during Rabbi Sacks' engagement as professor at Yeshiva University, when he gave the keynote address (shiur) at The Jewish Center in New York. For additional Pesach shiurim, articles, videos and resources, visit RabbiSacks.org/passover-pesach/. Wishing you and your families a chag kasher v'sameach! The Rabbi Sacks Legacy team
This episode covers a lot of ground with my guests from the Auschwitz Jewish Center, Tomek Kuncewicz and Maciek Zabierowski. We talk about the history of the Jewish community in Oświęcim, Poland as well as the challenges of educating the Polish non-Jewish community about the Holocaust. We close with a discussion of the ways in which the Holocaust is used in Polish politics today. To learn more about the valuable work of the Center, click here! Tomek Kuncewicz is the director of the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, Poland. Maciek Zabierowski is head of the education department at Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, Poland.Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod.Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.comThe Holocaust History Podcast homepage is hereYou can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here.
Rabbi Elie Weinstock Senior Rabbi of the Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach on Long Island. Previously, he was Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun (KJ) on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for 17 years and a member of the Judaic Studies faculty at the Ramaz School Jamaal Bernard Jamaal Bernard is a cultural strategist and innovator for his generation. As the COO of Christian Cultural Center, New York's largest church, and Senior Pastor of the Long Island campus, his vision is to lead strongly without compromising compassion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nahum Segal interviews Rabbi Elly Krimsky of Lido Beach Synagogue with Rabbi Benny Berlin of BACH Jewish Center in Long Beach, NY, about the 12/9 Unity Concert For Israel, he interviews Rabbi Mordechai Kanelsky about Bris Avrohom's Chanukah plans and he presents great Jewish music, the latest news from Israel and Morning Chizuk with Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser.
Bishop Parkes recently attended the 25th anniversary celebration dinner for the Catholic Jewish Center at Saint Leo University. He reflects on the evening in light of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
The war we're experiencing in Israel (started by Hamas from Gaza on October 7th, 2023) isn't the first dark time we Jews have endured. You'd have to live under a rock to think that we have never experienced such atrocities like this before. Looking back only 100 years, one could get a sample of understanding as to where we Jews acquired our thick skin. Would you suspect that our strength comes from poetry? Rabbi and frequent reciter of Tehillim, Rabbi Josh Franklin of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, sheds light on the secret weapon Jews possess. Franklin goes into detail on why these 150 psalms, thought to be written by the prophecy of King David, are timeless pieces that have given Jews the strength to survive for 3000+ years. Chaz Volk, host of Bad Jew, who recently became aware of this collection of writings, sits with Rabbi Franklin to learn of the relevant texts and history of Tehillim. About Rabbi Josh Franklin: Rabbi Josh Franklin heads the Jewish Center of the Hamptons (East Hampton) as the Senior Rabbi. In his six years on East End, he has helped revitalize and grow the Jewish community through engaging programming, transformative classes, inspiring worship, and welcoming community outreach. Hundreds of people flock to his community for Shabbat on the Beach each week over the summer for an innovative and magical prayer experience. All year round, he draws people to the Jewish Center of the Hamptons to hear from him and learn with him. In addition to his role at the synagogue, Rabbi Franklin contributes widely to the greater Hamptons community. He co-writes a bi-monthly column in Dan's Papers called “Hamptons Soul,” discussing issues of spirituality and justice in the Hamptons. He has sat on numerous local committees including the East Hampton Police Reform Committee and the Adolescent Mental Health and Substance Use Task Force. He also sits on the board of L'Arche Long Island, a community center and home for adults with developmental disabilities. Rabbi Franklin was named to the 2021 Schneps Media Powerlist, honoring the movers and shakers on the East End of Long Island. Dans Papers named Rabbi Franklin one of its “People of the Year: East Enders Who Made the World A Better Place in 2022.” Before receiving his ordination at Hebrew Union College, Rabbi Franklin attended Clark University in Worcester, MA. There he graduated Magna Cum Laude, receiving both a B.A. and M.A in History. He also holds two additional masters degrees in Jewish Education and Hebrew Literature. Rabbi Franklin was the recipient of the Daniel and Bonnie Tisch Fellowship, a rabbinical program exploring congregational studies, personal theology, and contemporary religion in North America. Before coming to the Hamptons, he served as a rabbi at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, MA. Rabbi Franklin resides in East Hampton with his wife Stephanie and two children Lilah and Amelia. Connect with Rabbi Josh Franklin: www.RabbiJoshFranklin.com www.JCOH.org Connect with Bad Jew: Connect with Bad Jew BadJewPod@gmail.com Ig @BadJewPod TikTok @BadJewPod
This week on Behind the Headlines, the panel discusses plans for new parkland in Southampton Village; renovations at Herrick Park in East Hampton; a lawsuit over the deadly fire in Riverhead in 2021; ongoing zoning change talks in Greenport; and charges of antisemitism from the Jewish Center of the Hamptons at a ZBA hearing.Bill Sutton, Managing Editor, The Express News GroupAnnette Hinkle, Arts and Living Editor, The Express News GroupDenise Civiletti, Editor/Publisher, Riverhead LocalBeth Young, Editor/Publisher at East End BeaconChristopher Gangemi, Staff Writer, The East Hampton Star
This week on Behind the Headlines, the panel discusses plans for new parkland in Southampton Village; renovations at Herrick Park in East Hampton; a lawsuit over the deadly fire in Riverhead in 2021; ongoing zoning change talks in Greenport; and charges of antisemitism from the Jewish Center of the Hamptons at a ZBA hearing.Bill Sutton, Managing Editor, The Express News GroupAnnette Hinkle, Arts and Living Editor, The Express News GroupDenise Civiletti, Editor/Publisher, Riverhead LocalBeth Young, Editor/Publisher at East End BeaconChristopher Gangemi, Staff Writer, The East Hampton Star
On Monday, November 7th, Marlboro Jewish Center hosted a unique panel discussion in commemoration of Kristallnacht. It included special guest and former Davidson College basketball coach Bob McKillop who joined us to share his experience taking his team to Auschwitz with Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor (z"l). Their journey is part of a new book, Unbracketed: Big-time College Basketball Done Right by Graham Honaker and Jerry Logan, who also joined us for this panel. This week's episode is a shorted version of the program and an inspirational story about the good that can rise from even the most terrible ashes.
Episode 98: This week on the “Dan's Talks” podcast, Dan speaks with Rabbi Josh Franklin of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. In … Read More
Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz joins Idaho Matters to talk about the Chabad Jewish Centers expansion and some of it's history.
Topic: Transformative Leadership Guest: Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman Bio: Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman began his tenure as Yeshiva University's fifth president in June 2017. Under his visionary leadership, Dr. Berman has laid the foundation for the next great era of Yeshiva University. Through a bold academic plan, he has articulated a new business model with investments in key areas such as science and technology, entrepreneurship and innovation, values and leadership and market ready graduates with great jobs and impactful careers. During his tenure, the university has introduced over 20 new graduate degrees in emerging fields including artificial intelligence, cyber security, physician assistant, biotech management, real estate management, special education, marriage and family therapy, MBA and Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Education. He spearheaded efforts to establish new academic centers such as the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. These efforts have produced significant growth in enrollment as well as in philanthropic gifts including funding for the Shevet Glaubach Center for Career Strategy and Professional Development, the Innovation Lab, new physician assistant and occupational therapy labs as well as state of the art computer science labs. Under his leadership, Yeshiva University has risen 29 places in the U.S. News & World Report. Dr. Berman is widely published in outlets such as Forbes, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal. A gifted leader, scholar, and orator, Dr. Berman graduated with distinction from four of Yeshiva University's schools. He earned his B.A. from Yeshiva College, his M.A. in Medieval Jewish Philosophy from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, and his rabbinical ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). His studies also included two years of learning at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel, under the tutelage of the seminal Jewish thinker and leader Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein. After making aliyah to Israel in 2008, Dr. Berman completed his higher education with a Ph.D. in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, supervised by renowned philosopher Professor Moshe Halbertal. Dr. Berman has a broad range of distinguished experience in the worlds of higher education and Jewish communal life. He led The Jewish Center in New York City as its Rabbi, served as Instructor of Talmud at Yeshiva College and Herzog College, served on the executive council at Herzog College and was chief executive (Rosh Ha-Merkaz) of Hechal Shlomo – Center of Jewish Heritage in Jerusalem. Dr. Berman is an active and erudite spokesman for the Jewish community. He lectures widely throughout the U.S. and Israel and has written numerous articles on subjects addressing contemporary Jewish thought, modern philosophy and trends in higher education. He is married to Anita Berman and they have five children. In this riveting interview, we cover: 1. Being a Servant of G-d 2. YU on the Rise 3. How the World at-Large perceives YU 4. Gut Decisions 5. Doctoral Study 6. CEO/Business Modeling 7. Rise-Up Campaign & the Quest for 613 'Mitzvos' 8. Life is Short/Different Phases And so much more!
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Rabbi David Block is the Head of School at Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles, CA, where he previously served as the Associate Head of School and Judaic Studies Principal. He formerly worked as the Content and Curriculum Developer at Aleph Beta, taught Judaic Studies at Rambam Mesivta in New York, and was the recurring Scholar-in-Residence at the Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach. He was formerly the Director of and singer in the Maccabeats. Rabbi Block received rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University, where he also completed an M.A. in Jewish History, an M.S. in Education, and is currently working on his doctorate. Gems:Be open to new ways of learning Torah.The Torah is multi-layered, and the depth is remarkable.Think about how to use Torah as the conduit to help students develop their relationship with G-d.Think through what you are doing to help your students along their journey in their relationship with G-d and Torah.Talk about G-d all the time.Ask hard questions.Learning must be student-centered; they should grapple with things meaningful to them.Help facilitate an environment where students can reach their potential.Celebrate and embrace students for who they are.Push your students to think.Show each student that they are worth it and also that there's something greater than them.Join an environment that nourishes you.Shift perspective from fighting students to respecting them and helping them on their journey.Education is a journey.Learn to keep the integrity of Torah while appreciating the culture that influences us in a positive way. Amazon We receive a small commission for any items purchased through my Amazon link.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/JewishEducationExperiencePodcast)
Episode 99 Last time, we talked about relativistic time and its implications for faith in a theistic god. That conversation was... heady to say the least. So, here to help us further understand what all that means is our good friend Dr. Timothy Maness. We talk about the flow of time, where/when God is, fate, and more. Ready to have your mind blown? Timothy Maness is a scholar of science and religion whose recent dissertation, which he is currently adapting into a book, discusses ways of reconciling relativistic physics with a flowing model of time, in which past, present and future are really distinct from one another. It also explores how a relativistic theory of flowing time can complement Abrahamic theology, and serve as the basis for a view of existence centered on personhood. Support this podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/DowntheWormholepodcast More information at https://www.downthewormhole.com/ produced by Zack Jackson music by Zack Jackson and Barton Willis Transcript This transcript was automatically generated by www.otter.ai, and as such contains errors (especially when multiple people are talking). As the AI learns our voices, the transcripts will improve. We hope it is helpful even with the errors. Zack Jackson 00:06 You are listening to the down the wormhole podcast exploring the strange and fascinating relationship between science and religion. Our guest today is an incredible scholar of science and religion whose recent dissertation which he is currently adapting into a book discusses ways of reconciling relativistic physics with a flowing model of time, in which past, present and future are really distinct from one another. It also explores how a relativistic theory of flowing time can complement Abrahamic theology, and serve as the basis for a view of existence centered on personhood, here to unpack what all of that means, and more is our good friend, Dr. Timothy Maness. Welcome to the podcast. Tim. Tim Maness 00:50 Hi. It's great to be here. Yeah, I've been I've been a regular listener. And I've been I've been wanting to get on for quite some time. Zack Jackson 00:57 I have been, we have been talking about having you on since almost the beginning of the podcast. So I do apologize. Tim Maness 01:03 I know you guys have had a lot of things to talk about to, to clarify for our listeners, the wonderful Sinai and Synapses fellowship that is, is run by the the Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, the the same cohort of fellows were the hosts of the podcast met, I also had the privilege of meeting them as well. So we were we were all friends in that, that fellowship. So we've known each other for a while now. It was Zack Jackson 01:33 a very good cohort. And the very first time that I met him, I remember us standing awkwardly as people do when they first meet, maybe nibbling on a bagel or something and saying, What are you doing? And of course, I felt completely out of place. Because, you know, I'm a, I'm a pastor who likes science, and I'm in a room filled with people with advanced degrees and understandings of things that are beyond my, my understanding, and that, you know that what do they call it? That imposter syndrome that everyone? You know, everyone will? I do? Say everyone, because we all think we're imposters, right? Yep, yep. Yeah, I was really feeling it. And I was all I had done some work in seminary on on relativistic time, and theology and our understanding of God and salvation. And so when I asked him, What is he was working on. And he said, he explained some of his dissertation and how it was exactly what I had been working on, I got so excited, I said, we need to talk, I need to read this, I need to, we need to hear it. And then when he started explaining it, to me, it went so far over my head, I realized how much I still had to learn. And I have and he's been really helpful in helping me to understand some things and inspiring me to learn more and to dig deeper into the things I thought I knew, and the implications that I thought were there. And so it's, it's, it's really nice to have you here to help unpack and open up some of this stuff. I think it was St. Augustine that said, I understand time fully until you asked me to explain it. I, Tim Maness 03:07 that's that's one of my go to quotations, I think might be the introduction of my dissertation starts with that. Zack Jackson 03:15 Oh, well, there you go. That's, that'd be fun to defend, I would imagine, where you just start off by saying, I can't explain any of this stuff. Tim Maness 03:24 Yeah, yeah. But one of the things I want to argue is that is that you know, the average person, but But you, dear listener, understand time in you that you have in an important understanding of time, that, that you that ought to be taken into account. And that one of the ways that, that a lot of the philosophy of time over the past, you know, century and a bit has has failed, is in failing to take our everyday experience of time into account. So, I think that, you know, I want to be careful about trying about about going over people's heads. I think it was Einstein, who said that, if that happens is that one of the things that that's a sign of is that the person who is explaining doesn't understand their subject as well as they should. Zack Jackson 04:25 So yeah, that's the, that's what sets like Jesus's teachings apart is that you can say a whole lot in a little bit because you really get it or Mr. Rogers. Yeah. So maybe you can help us to understand a little bit, you mentioned that we have an experience of time. I think that kind of goes without saying that the past is what you did. The present is what you're doing in the future is what you will do, and they're all connected causally. But that's about it. Right? You know, and that there's a static flow of time like a conveyor belt, almost Right, but that's not, that's not exactly how things panned out in the early 1900s. Tim Maness 05:06 Yes, that's true. There are these these three modes of time, these three sort of general tenses, you might say there, if you get into the grammar, but you can come up with more that, that constitute our relationship with time. The, the philosopher, Immanuel Kant talked about PILOTs, one of the categories of our experience, you know, this thing that sort of gives shape to, to the way we experience the world. And, you know, we experienced that the past is accessed through through memory, that's the past is, is this set thing that we, that we, that we know, of, it's definite for us. To some extent, it's definite, but we forget things as well. But it's it's set, it has its own existence, and the future doesn't exist yet. It's some, it's the, the domain of, of sort of planning and also guesswork. It's, it's there to be defined, and the present is where those two things come together. But it's also more than that. It's, it's the, it's the way of, of the mode of times existence in which we can act, in which we make decisions, and, and do things. And it's those decisions, that that shape, the future. And all of those things are, are, are deeply tied in to our way of living in the world as human beings. Right, you know, that's all of those have a very sort of narrative kind of character to them. That it's like, it's like a story, right? That we talked about having a beginning and a middle and an ending. And even before Einstein, a lot of philosophers and scientists were kind of suspicious about that way of talking about time, precisely because it was so human. So, you know, the, the great philosopher, Bertrand Russell, who, you know, contributed so much to the philosophy of mathematics, among other things. Writing before Einstein said that, basically, the fact that this way of thinking about time has so much of the human in it has so much of our subjective, personal way of, of experiencing things into it, that, but there must be something wrong with it. Basically, that in order to be really scientific, where a scientific, you know, is considered to mean the same thing as rigorous. And, you know, and well thought out, then, a way of thinking also has to be objective, it can't rely on any particular point of view. And so Rafal, among others, thought it was better to imagine that that time, was I didn't really have this, this past present future character, that the differences among these three ways of, of experiencing time, were just an illusion, that are brought on by by some, some weird thing about human consciousness or another. And that, in reality, all events in time, exist in the same kind of way. In my work, and in the work of a lot of philosophers of time, we draw on the A category that got set up by this, this philosopher named James McTaggart, who wrote about sort of two ways that we have of talking about time, the A Series and the B series, like many philosophers, he was not really great at creative names. And so the A Series is, is it involves differences in past and present and future in that way that we talked about, imagines that, that the time flows, you might say that, that an event is, is in the future, and then it's in the present, and then it's in the past. And it has all of these different characteristics of past present and future as time goes on. And then on the other hand, there is the B series, and in the B Series events don't have the past, present and future relationships. All they have are the relationships with earlier and later on So for instance, if you can imagine looking at like a history textbook, and you see events on a timeline, where, you know, pen 66, the, the, the Norman invasion of England happens. And, you know, there's in, in this month of that year, this happens. And then a later month of the year, this happens and all of the events are sort of laid out next to each other on a line. All of those events sort of have the same kind of existence. They're, they're, they're sort of different modes of existence that used to see in the A series, the past, the present, and the future stuff. And in our daily lives, we use both of these all the time. Whenever you are planning out your schedule for the day, you are thinking about time in a B Series kind of way. You're saying, Well, alright, I'm gonna sit down to record this podcast at 9am. And then, you know, for my, you know, I should probably have lunch in there somewhere. So it's penciled in for noon, I've got this this other phone call that's scheduled at 330. And you're sort of laying these things out. That way, sort of, in kind of as though you're laying them out in space. And, and again, it's just, it's just an earlier later kind of relationship. But in order to, to take that schedule and translate it into something that you actually do, you also have to bring in the A series there comes a point where, you know, it's not enough just to say, you know, alright, I am starting this podcast at 9am, you are not able to actually do the things necessary to start the, you start the podcast, until unless you have the the impression that at some point 9am is now and and now is a concept that the B series does not have. There is there is no one moment that it picks out is having that special characteristic of noun, it's that moment where, you know, we are where we are acting in the present where things are present to us. You know, there's there's just earliness and lateness and, and so it takes that that intersection between the A Series and the B series in order to to make the the events that we schedule happen. So we have both a ways of picking the time and B ways of taking that time and we use them both all the time. McTaggart his question, or his way of framing the question is, which one of these two ways of thinking is the more fundamental one? Is it the case that time is is really like the B series that, you know, events all have the same kind of existence, and they're ordered by earlier and delayed earlier and later? And our sense of past, present and future is some weird kind of illusion that comes out of our brains? Or is it the case that time really has a past or present in the future, and the B series just comes out of our way of writing things down? And it turns out that, that McTaggart actually thought that neither of these was true, and that he thought that time was the time was just an illusion. But the use terminology sort of gave names to two of the major camps, the people who think that the past present future way of thinking about time is the more fundamental one tend to call themselves a theorist or talk or to talk about flowing time and the people who think that the B series of time the earlier and later there is no now, way of thinking about time is more fundamental They call themselves the B theorists. So, for instance, Bertrand Russell is is a good example of a a b theorist. And you have you know, even quite quite distinguished philosophers and and scientists people like like the, the eminent French, the French philosopher Ali Belkacem was a major proponent of the a theory. The the physicist Arthur Eddington was a major proponent of the a theory. So, this is this is already a hot topic of discussion coming into the 20th century, when Einstein is still a patent clerk and hasn't haven't made a name for himself yet. But then comes relativity as as as Zack has has already talked about, dear listeners and, and that throws a wrench in everything. thing. And it turns out that the assumption that was made in Newtonian physics and, frankly, has probably been made by just about everyone else ever. That, that everybody shares the same now. And that, you know, now is the same moment, you know, here on the East Coast of the United States, as it is in, you know, on the west coast that, you know, it might be the case that the time that we call, you know, 1030, on the east coast, is 630. On the west coast, we, you know, we assign it to different times on the clock, but we can agree that it's now, right, that, you know, you see this in like in like, you know, TV scheduling, for instance, you know, or at least you know, in the days before streaming, we used to we used to talk about TV scheduling this way, but you know, this thing is this, the show is going to come on at, you know, 730 Eastern 630 Central. That, you know, we assign the time when the show begins different moments on the clock, depending on the timezone, but we can agree that the time when the show starts is the same, even if people assign it to two different moments on the clock. So, so this assumption that, that there's the same now that exists here on the East Coast, and over there on the West Coast, and over on the planet Mars, and over in the Andromeda Galaxy, it is all one now, Einstein says, nope, nope, that's not true. That how we experience time, depends on where we are and how fast we're moving. And that people are going to disagree about how long things take. And about what things take place at the same time as each other, depending on how they're moving relative to the events that they're talking about. And that this sort of multisyllabic way of talking about that concept is the relativity of simultaneity. Simultaneous the fact of happening at the same time, simultaneously, the quality of happening at the same time. That's relative in in Einstein's terms, and, and the sort of classic example that that we have for that is, goes back to Einstein. It involves trains. And I think that the trains are going to come up a lot as an image has, as I talked about this. So you mentioned you've got a train that's that's moving past a station. And in the middle of one of the train cars, there is a flashbulb that will go off, let's say for an art project. And the flashbulb goes off in the middle of the train. And light starts coming out of the flashbulb and going towards the two ends of the train. You remember from the previous episode on relativity, that the speed of light is invariant, it's the same for all observers, we might say, for observers in all reference frames, for all points of view. And so a person who is sitting in the middle of the train next to the flashbulb, let's say it's the artist is going to, from that person's point of view, since the light bulb is in the middle of the train, light from the light bulb, is going to hit both ends of the car at the same time, light bulb is exactly in the middle, lightest traveling at the same speed. So it is going to take the same amount of time to hit both ends of the of the car, the front in the back. So from in that person's reference frame, the reference room with the artist on the train, the moment when the light hits the front of the car. And the moment when the light hits the back of the car are going to be simultaneous will happen at the same time. From the perspective of a person who is sitting on a platform as the train goes by, you know, presumably they're waiting for the local and this is the Express that's passing. And they're they're looking at this car wondering what on earth is going on with this flashbulb in this train car. From their perspective, the back of the car is is instead of moving toward this, this is the place where where the where the light was emitted, and the front of the car is moving away from it. So from the perspective of the person who is, you know, sitting at sitting on the platform with the train cars moving past, the light will hit the back of the train earlier than it hits the front of the train. So those two events are not simultaneous, one happens before the other. And the weird thing about relativity, or one of the many weird things about relativity is that it tells us that, that neither of these people is right, and neither of them is wrong. It's not the case that that motion is introducing some kind of distortion into things and that the person who was sitting still is right, because you can't say who's sitting still and who's in motion, all you can do is say that, you know, this is in motion with respect to this. So there's no matter of fact, about whether or not these two events happen at the same time, they happen at the same time in one reference frame, and they don't happen at the same time in in another reference frame. And that's all you can say, the the simultaneity of these two events is relative. So, if that's the case, then the idea of now becomes kind of complicated. You can't say that, you know, you can't say definitively I should say that, you know, a given set of events are all happening at the same time, a time that we can call now, some people moving at some speed with respect to those events are going to assign them all to the same. Now, some people are going to say that, you know, events, A and B are in the past of events C, and some people are going to divide things up differently altogether. So, past and present and future, from a point of view of relativity become a lot harder to divide up. And so, a lot of people, what they get out of this is the idea that this must mean that relativity is basically giving us a knockdown, scientific physical argument, that the are not just an argument that are proof that the beef theory, the the only earlier and later no past present, and future way of looking at time, is really the more fundamental one, that past and present and future are just things that human beings with their weird little brains are imposing on the the grand, impersonal scientific universe. How are we doing so far? Zack Jackson 23:06 Great. Ian Binns 23:07 I'm just listening. Because it still always blows my mind. All the time just blows my mind. Zack Jackson 23:14 It's mind blowing. Well, anytime you say that, anytime you say that. You experience it this way. But the mathematics suggests that it's this other way. I mean, that in and of itself, you know, you've heard it said, But I say to you, right, you're blowing minds. Tim Maness 23:29 Right? And, and, and that's, you know, that plays in with, with that, that way of thinking about science that Russell had, right? That, you know, here we have this this problem that philosophers were debating about, for centuries and centuries, and long come the physicists, and they solve it. Right? That, that, you know, it's the philosophy is, is about endless, fruitless debate. And science comes in and cuts the Gordian knot, and gives us, you know, the way things really are, and, you know, avoids all of this fog of mere language and gives us the truth in mathematics. And, you know, that's, that's something that philosopher after philosopher in the 20th century, brings out of this. And one of the things that they that they do, not universally, but really kind of a lot is that they, they go on from saying, mathematics is, you know, is reliable in a way that subjectivity and language aren't to saying that basically, the human experience of personhood is an illusion of of a similar kind. That, that all of all of our the subjectivities of our experience What what is sometimes called qualia, the hardness of our perceptions, you might see people talk about the redness of a rose, as opposed to the knowledge that you know, light is being reflected off of the rose itself in such a, such a wavelength, you know, or the, the, the emotional side of, of hearing music, as opposed to just being able to describe it in terms of, you know, frequency and amplitude, that all of that stuff is, you know, is is illusion. And that the, the math of those experiences is all that's really real. So, that has a lot of implications for religion, right? Because, so much of you know, of, of our religious experience is personal. In this way. One of my my favorite philosopher theologians, the, the Dane with the rather difficult to pronounce, name of Sir and Kierkegaard, you know, has has this, this whole book, where he talks about how the sort of basis of, of religious experience is this thing that happens inside of you that you can never fully communicate to someone else. And that all of our attempts to talk about religion are attempts that fail, more or less, to take this inexpressible thing, and put it out where other people can see it. And, you know, and and you hear you have this, this, this emerging philosophical viewpoint that, that claims to have, you know, to perceive basically scientific proof for itself, that that's just nonsense, that that nothing that's inexpressible in mathematics can even really exist, that anything else is a delusion. And even if you don't follow things quite that far, even if you don't take from this, the, that, you know, the science is really showing that human subjectivity is an illusion. Taking this, this sort of be theory view of time, poses a lot of problems for religion by itself. So if the B theory is true, time looks a lot like space. And all, you know, all the parts of space, all spots in space exists sort of alongside each other. And in the same way. Here's where here's where I bring in another one of my training analogies, that lots of train, what's the train analogies train? Zack Jackson 27:55 Well, they go in straight lines. So it's very convenient. Tim Maness 27:57 Most of the time, you know, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're in the loop in Chicago, all bets are off for a lot of reasons. But so but but imagine that I'm going to train this traveling in a reasonably straight line, I'm on the Amtrak going up the East Coast, right? And imagine that my train is temporarily stopped in Philadelphia. And you know, maybe I'm going to get off at the station and grab a cheese steak and then get on before I move on north. So when I'm there on the train in Philadelphia, right. Washington DC still exists, even though I've left it, right. It's not present to me now. But it's still there. And New York and Boston, even though I haven't gotten there yet, exist, they're real. There are things going on there that are that are happening, even though I don't perceive them, they are real. So the, in this be theoretic way of looking at time now is like Philadelphia, and the pastor's like, DC. And the future is like New York and Boston. The past is still there, even though that's not where I am now. And the the future is out there that exists, like York and Boston do even though I'm not there now. And the present doesn't have anything really special about it. It's just where I happen to find myself at a particular moment. Right. So if that's the case, if that really is the best description of how time is and a lot of the stories that we tell, that involve time, which is to say all stories that we tell become, well, they become sort of different. So, in, in, in religion, right, we have a lot of stories about, say about people changing their lives. Right? Where, you know, in, in, in the Bible, God says to God says to people, you know, turn your lives around. And then as a result of your turning your life around, this will happen to you. Or if you don't turn your life around, this won't happen to you. Yes. So that sort of way of thinking about about the stories of people's lives depends on a particular way of talking about time, right? The the events, after you make that that critical decision to turn your life around or not to, you know, have some conversion or some repentance or some whatever else, that depends on an idea that the future doesn't exist yet, but it's there to be shaped by your decisions. And so it makes sense to talk about the events that happen after that, that decision as being in some way more important than the events that happen before. Right? That what happens later, can change the meaning of what happened earlier, can in some limited way, maybe make up for what happened earlier, can be more relevant than what happened earlier. This, this is sounding plausible, based on on, you know, the way that you think about time and, you know, regular everyday way Zack Jackson 31:44 I hear kind of, at least in the scriptural analogy, there's kind of two stories that popped to my mind, I think of that whole, that whole paradigm is so important for the province, right? They they come before the people and they say, here's what you've done. Here's what you need to change, or else, this is what will happen, right? That's sort of the formula of every one of the problems, they're giving you a chance to repent, to change to move. So your future is not totally decided yet. The future is uncertain, it's being written now. And then the other story I think of is that of Moses and Pharaoh, where God tells Moses, go to Pharaoh say, Let my people go. And he goes to Pharaoh and says, Let my people go. And then God hardens Pharaoh's heart, because God has an ending in mind already, and is going to, like the future is unchangeable. In that story, there was always going to be plagues always going to be an exodus always going to be that. And God is still telling Moses to do this thing now, despite the fact that it's not going to change anything, because God is going to intervene, because the future is fixed. All right. And of those two stories, people generally tend to accept the prophetic version a lot easier than the the future is already fixed. And God is behind the scenes, you know, making this a deterministic situation, right? Because then they think, why do I even bother? Yeah, what's the point of any of this if the future is already if the future is already real? And whatever, you know, I should just sit back and do nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Tim Maness 33:23 And which is not to say that there haven't been some theologians who have tried to embrace that, that sort of the future is set way of looking at things, right. Where you have people who are in favor of have a strong view of looking what gets hold predestination, where, where God has already set out your entire future for you, where all of the events of your life exists, like, like, you know, like, like, all the events in a book, right, where everything has already happened, even before you've in a circumstance, even before you've read it, it's just a matter of, you know, going through the pages, until you get to the the ending that was already there. And people like, you know, like John Calvin, in the in the Christian tradition, tend to have a strong view of predestination. That's, that is a really common view in, in Muslim theology. It's, you get a lot of Muslim thinkers who have that that particular strong view that God has planned out all of history. It's very uncommon in Judaism, you will find very few Jewish thinkers who wouldn't rather go with that sort of open future. There's there there's very little Jewish support for the idea of predestination. So yeah, you have you have, you can find some theologians who are going to be on either side of this debate. But on the whole, you're right people do like to they do like to opt for the idea of the open future because it makes our choices more meaningful. Right? It means that our choices are made, or at least, are potentially made by us. They aren't sort of written out ahead of time for us by God. And that means, for instance, that, that if we're making our own choices, that that that has implications for God's responsibility for evil in the world. If God has already made everybody's choices for everybody beforehand, then that means that God is responsible for all of the evil that people do. That God decided already decided, every time somebody was going to commit a murder. God made that happen, rather than than the person choosing to commit that murder against God's will. Zack Jackson 35:57 Yeah, it's holding a marionette responsible for its puppeteers act. Right. Exactly. Ian Binns 36:03 The idea of fate, right? No. Tim Maness 36:05 Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Right. Yeah, that's that's our Ian Binns 36:09 that's already written or something like that. Is that kind of the same? Tim Maness 36:13 thing? I think that's that's, that's a great one syllable way of putting it this is this is exactly fate. Right, in the way that that many cultures have had had it that the way you sometimes see like Greek and Roman ways of talking about the world, where everybody has their fate. It's laid out, you if you try to avoid it, it will just you'll just end up coming at it in a way that you didn't expect. Zack Jackson 36:38 Yeah, that's all edifice. Yeah, there. Yeah. Tim Maness 36:43 And that's, you know, it's not to say that that's, that that's a way of looking at God, that doesn't make sense, in a sort of abstract kind of way. But it's one that poses a lot of problems, especially for an Abrahamic view of God, where we want to talk about God as as loving, and as good. And in, it causes a lot of problems for the way we want to talk about the end of time. Right? We have this idea that at the end of time, God will will will wipe will wipe away every tear from people's eyes will make things okay. And that God will, to some extent treat people based on the choices that they've made during their lives. And if God has decided everybody's choices for them all along the line, then that makes a lot less sense. If people's, you know, if the will, the changes that people make in their lives. If the events that happen after those changes always exist, and the events that happen before those changes always exist, and they exist in the same way, then it doesn't seem like there's no particular reason to treat the events afterward as being more important than the events that happened before. Right? It's it's not as though if you're looking at a map of the US, right? But you would say, all right, everything that happens east of the Mississippi cancels out everything that happens west of the Mississippi, you know, that would be ridiculous. And if, if all events are laid out in time, the way, you know, places are laid out in space, then it seems ridiculous in the same way to talk about events, later, canceling out events that happened earlier. So there's, there's there's no particular reason for God to assign people to treat people differently based on on changes that they make. There's no sort of final victory of good over evil, because the evil always exists, it doesn't pass away. It's always there. In the same way that the good that God eventually brings him to be is always there. So even if you're if you even if you're not following these along these these be theorist philosophers in saying that, you know, the human personality doesn't really exist. The B theory causes all kinds of problems for for Abrahamic theology, and the the predestination list of theologians who would be happy to go along with the B theory. They don't have a lot of responses beyond Well, it's a mystery. You know, God see thing, God sees things differently. And it's not necessarily going to make sense to us. And that's something that we as theologians have to say a lot of the time because, you know, part of the way that we think about God is that yeah, God is different from us. And God does see things differently. But when you basically have to take that same explanation and apply it to literally everything in the way that we talk about God interacting with human beings, then speaking for myself, I don't find it very satisfying. It feels to me like, though it does make sense to say that there are there are things about God that we're not going to understand that we should, at a minimum, have some things that we can understand about the way God interacts with us in our own lives. If anything should be comprehensible to us, it seems like it should be that we should be able to understand the impact of what we do. Zack Jackson 40:38 Yeah, that we can't necessarily understand the nature the full nature of a being that exists outside of our experience our universe, but we should be able to at least understand our experience of that. Right. Tim Maness 40:57 Right. And especially if we're if retail was Ian Binns 41:01 gonna, yeah, please go ahead. I was gonna ask about in, you just alluded to it that, Zach, that, because again, it's still this is still cooking my brain here a little bit, but so the idea that God would exist outside of our understanding of time, right, like, even based on all this stuff that you're talking about here, Tim? Um, is that okay, in a theological way or not? Okay, I'm not permission, but what are your thoughts on approaching it that Tim Maness 41:31 way? Well, yeah, I mean, that's, that's, that's another big problem, that, that, that sort of exists at right angles to this one, right, you can have sort of different positions on that. And, and imagine it as impacting the way we think about time in different ways. Right? So people usually want to talk about God as knowing some things that exist in the future, right? Prophecy is, is assuming to some degree that God knows some things before they happen? And how are we going to reconcile that with the way that we think about time? Well, people have have proposed different things. You know, if the B theorists are right, and all events already exist, and that becomes very simple to explain, you know, God knows things. God knows everything that happens, because God sort of created it all. At you know, as it were, at the same moment, you know, God brought all that into existence together. With the great theologian, Augustine, the Christian theologian, Augustine, he, drawing on some, some sort of Greco Jewish ways of thinking about time, proposes that the time is this created thing. That, that, that there is no time, until God creates the universe. And when God creates the universe, you know, as God is saying, what it'd be like, then then time comes into being with things as as, as they start. And that would mean for Augustine, for instance, that God is is outside of time, in the same way that we say that God is outside of space. Right, that God doesn't you know, that God isn't located in space, you know, there's, there's not some place that you can go to the specialty that you've been, you know, getting the spaceship and travel to apply. And that's where God is, you know, this is one of the reasons why Star Trek five is a bad movie. And I'm wondering if Ian Binns 43:31 you're gonna do that. Tim Maness 43:34 And in the same way, there's, there's no particular moment where we're God is in time. And, and so, if God is outside of time, in that way, then then you could ask, you know, what is God's relationship to time like, there's this, this, this other Christian thinker on amblyseius, who has a way of thinking about time that has some subtle differences from Augustine, that we may or may not end up getting into he has this sort of famous image of God as it's the God's way of looking at time as is like a person in a watch tower looking down the road, right, that the person is not on the road, and what they see all events on the road from where they sit. So So God is sort of looking at time from outside and seeing it that way. And some people argue that God's knowledge of future events doesn't determine future events because God isn't really knowing them before they happen in a strict sense, because God isn't in the scheme of before and after. Zack Jackson 44:53 That sounds like the sorts of ways that they handle pre cognition in dune Is that the he doesn't actually see what will happen. He sees what they describe as a series of threads that all come out and branch off of each other of possible probable futures based on where things are. And so when he has visions, they're things that don't necessarily happen, but are possible happenings and then is then current actions can then determine whether or not those potential futures happen. Yeah, Tim Maness 45:30 you are it's also talked about that way in what is arguably the first time travel story. Christmas Carol. Where were we? Zack Jackson 45:43 Oh, man, yeah, I hadn't thought about the Christmas Carol is as a time travel, Tim Maness 45:48 we're screwed says to to the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come Are these the shadows of things that will be your those might have been things that might be only. And, and there's a moment there are other ways of looking at at time in which God's relationship to time is like that, in which God is in time with us. And that the future doesn't exist for God either. And that, that God has, maybe you might say that God knows, to some extent what might happen, because God knows us really well. In the same way that that, you know, you might say, if your best friend, or if some close family member, well, if you put this person in this situation, I don't know for certain what they would do. But I bet they do this. That if you have really good knowledge of someone, you have an idea of how they would react in a given situation. And so maybe God's knowledge of the future is like that, where God has perfect knowledge of all of the physical conditions, and God has really good knowledge of our personalities. So God can say with a high probability, yeah, this is what's likely to happen. But it's up to you. Zack Jackson 47:06 When I was in seminary, I was a, I was in an arrogant little seminary, all army was all the things. And I had a professor who accused me of being more influenced by Greek philosophy than by the, you know, Christian theology, and which is fighting back against that Tim Maness 47:31 theologians have been accusing each other of since the first century. Zack Jackson 47:36 Sure, because it's true. Because what I was talking about with the the omnis of God, that God is omnipotent, so all powerful, omniscient, so all knowing omnipresent, so all prayer, all places, omnibenevolent, all loving these ideas of the omnis, which don't actually appear in Scripture, but that so very color, the way we think about God, and so what I was talking about what God being all knowing, so God knowing all of the things, and he challenged that and he said you where do you find that? And honestly, my basis of it was just the things that I was taught in Sunday school, that God these are the foundational characteristics of God, but not necessarily in Scripture other than in like the Psalms, which will say, you know, God, you've searched me, you know, me high and low, all those things. But he said, What if we follow instead, the line of thinking from Philippians? Two, and what we talked about kenosis, the emptying of God, and that instead of saying that God knows everything, what if you were to say that God knows what God chooses to know, that God is able to know everything, but in a way of as a way of interacting with finite beings, chooses instead to not know everything in order to interact with humanity. And so there is a kind of self emptying in order to enter into our world which, you know, if you imagine a three dimensional object, trying to interact in a two dimensional world, that three dimensional object would have to lose some of its three dimensional pneus and be emptied of its depth in order to interact with one of those. Tim Maness 49:21 Edwin Abbott's great book Flatland. Zack Jackson 49:24 Right, which ended up being I mean, that book was about economics, but ended up being a great illustration for all kinds of they also horribly Tim Maness 49:32 sexist, I should I should point that out. So be warned. If you go in if you go in there, there's some some really awful stuff about the female. Zack Jackson 49:43 Yeah, it's just a good illustration. But that's about Tim Maness 49:46 I want to be careful. I call it a great book. And I want to be careful about that because there are ways we did is a super bad book. Zack Jackson 49:55 That's kind of where where process theology comes up, that God is intimately involved. In the process of the unfolding of time that God has emptied God's self. And that's how God interacts in time and space is by leaving, the the timelessness and the unchanging pneus of the whatever imagined other dimensions and instead becoming, made flesh in in this existence. And that sounds really nice. Until I started learning about relativistic time and that there is no privileged present moment. And that so then in what moment, is God present in the now? At that point? Yeah, there is an acrobat now, actually, that does God exist in a black hole? Where the where time flows, so drastically different? does? Does God exist on the photons? Does God exist in the now of, you know, objects moving near the speed of light? It all kind of fell apart. And then yeah, wonderful narrative of God, growing and changing and loving and weeping with the death of the planet, all of that kind of fell apart, too. And I was sad to lose my beautiful theology, Tim Maness 51:07 you might be interested to know that there are philosophers and theologians out there who are struggling mightily to take that beautiful theology and make it compatible with relativity. Zack Jackson 51:22 Your being you being one of them? Tim Maness 51:24 Well, yeah, I mean, in my dissertation, I talked about a couple of different ways that people try to, to reconcile that, that theology was depends so much on pulling time with relativity. And that idea of God is in time with us, is one of the ones that I look at. It's, that's, that's a way of looking at things that is being defended by by, for instance, William Lane, Craig, and John Lucas. I think, you know, I think that the way that they go about or I should say, specifically, the way that Craig goes about, trying to make this work, and relativity leaves some, some really big unanswered questions. So I think it's, it's maybe the less satisfying, of, of the two. But when I was finishing the dissertation, but before I had time to really do the research, and, and incorporate this, I was seeing some stuff about other physical ways of looking at time, that made me think, maybe, if I were to sit down and, and look at this in a future project, there might be more to be said, for, for that, that sort of God in time, way of of dealing with relativity. So that that may be a future project. And I should also say that, that specifically that idea of, of God not knowing the future, because it's not, you know, is is more characteristic of Lucas's way of looking at things than Craig's, because I think Craig takes a lot of the advantages of that way of thinking and first, not the window, again, by insisting that God has to know everything that happens in detail. Um, Ian Binns 53:24 well, so, you know, I know we are slowly getting, you're starting to run out of time. I'm curious, how has the all this work that you've done the dissertation work, you just talked about, you know, future ideas, future things, you're curious about? How, if at all, has it impacted or influenced your personal theological journey? Tim Maness 53:48 Well, personally is exactly the word for it. So, that, that brings me I guess, to the other way of trying to reconcile flowing time with relativity, that I think is the more satisfying one which comes out of the work that the the theologian Barbara John Russell, who is working at the the graduate theological Union are in Berkeley, the director of the Center for theology of the natural sciences, is instantly been a great friend tonight, a great friend to me. The way that that he tries to reconcile this is to say that a lot of the problems that that relativity causes here or that we we think of relativity as causing come from taking the idea of a now and trying to extend it in space. Right, to say that there should be a single now that can encompass, you know, where I am here and where you are there and where somebody else is on Mars and we're aliens are the Andromeda galaxy right? whereas one of the things that relativity should tell us is that the idea of now is inseparable from the idea of here. The what you have is not so much a universal now that we meet, you can fall about it, but here now, so I have one particular now. And, you know, you in in North Carolina, have a slightly different one, and use Zack in eastern pa have a slightly different one. And, you know, the farther you are away, but the more different your now is. And that the philosophers who want to say that, you know that everything breaks down, because you can't fundamentally assign things to a past and present and future, the mistake that they're making is trying to take different nouns and combine them into one to say that what is real for me, is real T is real to you. Because we exist in this, you know, that because we can interact with each other. You know, for instance, if I'm on the phone with one of you, right, and you're looking out your window, and you're seeing the squirrels doing something weird out there, the way they do that, even if even if you're not talking to me about the squirrels that those squirrels, and what they're doing is real to me on the other end of the phone. You know, that's the way we normally think about things happening, right? That what's real to you where you are, is real to me where I am, even if I don't know anything about it. And what Russell and a few others is saying is that maybe this is another one of those ideas that relativity should force us to abandon. Maybe what we should be thinking about is, rather than then one, universal now that encompasses everyone, maybe there are a myriad of individual here now that go with each particular observer, in each particular reference frame, whatever it might be, and they don't line up with each other, but maybe they don't have to. Maybe, because, you know, the thing is that all you disagree, we can disagree about what happens at the same time, or in some cases about the order that events take place. But we will never disagree about the causality of events. Right. That's that's one of the things that the big the big caveat to this story about, we tell about how relativity changes everything up is that relative even in relativity, even with all of these shenanigans about time, relativity never mixes up the order of events that are causally related to each other, you can always agree, no matter what reference frame you're in, that the cause happens before the effect. So in the end, we have different perspectives, but they kind of come out in the wash. And even though you might know something that I would consider repeated, so you might know something now that I would consider the time that you would call now that I was considered to be in the future. One of the things about relativity is that you can't get that information to me, before it would come to me anyway. You can't get me you can't transmit a signal to me at the speed of light in such a way that I find out about that event with advanced knowledge. So maybe what we should do, in Russell's point of view is rather than saying that, that God exists in a single universal now that defines what now really means, the way Craig would have done it to say that God is with us, each of our individual mouths. And that that's God's way of, of perceiving the universe is by looking at it through the eyes, so to speak, more or less metaphorically of everything in the universe, that that rather than, than sort of looking down at what's happening on the stage of creation from the Royal box, so to speak, that God is seeing what happens through the eyes of each of the actors. And for that matter, potentially through the through the eyes of all the props and all the pieces of scenery and if Go to a couple of theologians, or a number of theologians who get called the Boston personalist. Boston because they worked at Boston University. We find that they have, even outside the framework of relativity already come up with a way of thinking about God's interaction with the creation. It looks a lot like this. One of them incidentally, Edgar Brightman was Dr. Martin Luther King's PhD advisor. So when he was becoming Dr. King, he was working with Edgar Brightman. So I think these two things kind of fit together in a really productive, generative way. The idea that, rather than personhood, being this distortion of a timeless, pure mathematical, non linguistic reality, maybe personhood, is the core of what is maybe our individual, different irreconcilable ways of looking at the world is a really important feature of how the world is. And that because God, who created the universe who brought the universe into existence is a person. Not exactly in the same way that we are, because God is infinite, and has all sorts of characteristics that as we talked about, we can't know about or even talk about very well. But But God's personhood is in some way analogous to ours. And so that personhood becomes a really important thing for us to keep in mind as we talk about existence. And that if we can't translate that personhood into mathematics, then that's okay. Because mathematics doesn't have to be the only tool that we use to describe how things are. Zack Jackson 1:01:57 Yeah, your explanation reminds me a lot of the way that Teresa of Avila saw the way that God interacts with people. Or she said, Christ has no body but yours, no hands, no feet on Earth, but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on the world, yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world, yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, yours are the body. Christ has no body now on Earth, but you're right. Tim Maness 1:02:24 And even I think this works beautifully. Well, even talking about Christ's incarnation, you know, during those 30 Some years in, in Judea, right? That, that when God became incarnate speaking, he was a Christian, that it was as a particular human being, in a particular time and place, that God was this one guy with a very, who only walked around a very small area of the earth. Right, that God did all that God had to do in that incarnation, even with this perspective, that was very circumscribed. Very short, in terms of of time, and very localized in terms of space. And, and that's okay, that's, that's just how things are. Zack Jackson 1:03:16 Tim, as, as always, Tim, you've given me things to think about. You've given me scientific things to reread, as well as new perspectives on my own personal faith and theology to reconsider. So thank you again, for that. Any idea when this will all be turned into a book that everyone can read? Tim Maness 1:03:40 The ways that publishers are mysterious to us mere mortals? Ian Binns 1:03:45 Yes, this is true. Tim Maness 1:03:47 And so one of the things that they unfortunately don't necessarily teach you in grad school is hard to put together a book proposal. So that's something that I'm having to learn on my own. But hopefully, it shouldn't be too long. You know, though, of course as as, as CS Lewis has gotten the former bass line saying I call all time soon. Ian Binns 1:04:15 definitely agree with it. Yeah. Zack Jackson 1:04:18 Yeah, with a quote from Aslan. Tim Maness 1:04:20 Yeah. So it's been such a joy to to be a guest on the podcast and just to talk to you two guys, you're so great. And thanks. Zack Jackson 1:04:29 We'll have to have you back on again sometime soon to Tim Maness 1:04:32 say the word say the word and I am there and also then Zack Jackson 1:04:36 alright at yes then and there at the same time. Yes, it also not and oh wibbly wobbly timey. Why me? Yep. God bless you all.
New Year—new episode! We are bringing it back to Bo and invite you to come along with us as we strongly connect it through a Jewish lens. With founding Executive Director of the Jewish Center for Justice, Rabbi Joel Simonds, we dig into darkness, learn how to see the other, struggle with hardened hearts, and acknowledge the nuance that may just inspire us to move forward. We also welcome Elias Chajet, fourth-year rabbinical student at HUC-JIR as our Q&A guest. To continue the conversation: Jewish Center for Justice: JewishCenterforJustice.org Twitter: @JewishCJustice Instagram: @JewishCenterforJustice Facebook: @JewishCenterforJustice Find us on social media: Facebook: @DrinkingandDrashing Instagram: @DrinkingandDrashing Show the love with some Drinking and Drashing: Torah with a Twist merchandise at store.drinkinganddrashing.com, and don't forget to subscribe and give us a rating on Apple Podcasts—it's a great way to help our show grow! Edited by Kate Griffin
A man was having difficulty with one of his children. The child was once growing in religion on a daily basis. He loved learning Torah and doing mitzvot, but then something suddenly changed. He stopped being interested in learning and lost his passion for mitzvot. The parents tried all of the conventional means to reignite the flame in their child's soul, but nothing was working. They went to a rabbi to get advice and the rabbi told them, when they say the Birkot HaTorah in the morning, they should have extra kavana and try to bring themselves to tears when they say the words ונהיה אנחנו וצאצאינו כולנו יודעי שמך ולומדי תורתך לשמה, and that would help. They accepted the words of the rabbi and, b'ezrat Hashem, they will see their child turning around very soon. Some might be thinking, what is extra kavana going to accomplish? The child has no interest and is very open about it. Is something just going to change his mind out of the blue? The answer is, Hashem has infinite ways of helping and the amount of Heavenly help a person gets in this area will depend on his prayers. Hashem can take a person who is totally off the derech and steer him back on the right path. But first, his parents need to pray very hard that this will happen. In the biography about Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman, authored by Rabbi Nachman Seltzer, the following story is told. Rabbi Dov Berish Henig, Rabbi Grossman's grandson, is a Chabad shaliach in the city of Chengdu, China. Together with his rebbetzin , they have established a Jewish community there and have drawn many Jews back to Torah and mitzvot. When they had a baby boy, they invited Rabbi Grossman to be the sandak which he happily accepted. He flew into Chengdu airport, landing early Friday morning and the Chabad community planned a very uplifting Shabbat with their distinguished guest. That night, 130 people came to share in the meal there. In the middle of it, suddenly, the door opened and a young Israeli entered. When he saw Rabbi Grossman sitting at the head of the table, he began to shake, and then started crying. Rabbi Henig ran over to him to try to make him feel comfortable. He gave him a seat and later heard the story of the bizarre reaction upon seeing Rabbi Grossman. He said, after he finished his service in the army, he went hitchhiking around the Far East for the past year and a half. That morning, he wanted to go to a city located 300 kilometers away from where he was, and he waited on the side of the road, hoping to get a ride. A truck driver who was heading in that direction picked him up, but 200 kilometers into the trip, there was a roadblock. The driver said he was going to have to turn around and find an alternate route. The Israeli chose to get out of the car and continue on by himself. He started walking and eventually entered a wheat field that seemed to go on forever. He lost track of where he was and had no idea which direction to walk. After a very long time, he finally reached a road but was too drained to continue walking any more. He sat down and then the skies opened up, and it started pouring. He had nothing to protect himself with and just accepted the fact that he was going to get soaked. He took out a drink and made a l'chaim with himself. It was then that he suddenly recalled an incident he experienced ten years earlier. While he was a student at a Jerusalem school, he was taken on a trip to Migdal Emek where they were introduced to Rabbi Grossman. That day, Rabbi Grossman taught them a Hebrew song which, translated into English, means, What was, was. The main thing is to begin anew. Father, revitalize me completely, light a fire in my soul. As he thought about the words, he began singing them to himself right there and it made him feel much better. Just then, a truck approached the road he was sitting by and a Chinese driver offered to give him a ride. They both spoke a little bit of broken English. When the Israeli mentioned he was Jewish, the driver told him he would take him to the Jewish Center that was not too far from where they were. He dropped him off at the Chabad and then left. That is when this Israeli entered the shul and saw Rabbi Grossman. Just a short while before he had remembered the Rabbi and was singing a song that he taught him ten years earlier. And now, in the middle of China, he sees that same Rabbi face to face. He took the clear sign from Hashem and made teshuva . Within a short time, he was already keeping Shabbat. Look at what Hashem did to save this young man's neshama . He brought Rabbi Grossman to China, and He put the experience with the Rabbi in that man's head moments before He sent the Chinese driver to take him to that Chabad. Hashem can give all of us the help that we need with our children, but it is up to us to pray for it first.
The following shiur and Q&A with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks were recorded at Yeshiva University on 16th March 2016.
In this episode of the TRADITION Podcast we talk with two contributors to our recent “Rabbi Norman Lamm Memorial Volume” about R. Lamm's vision for the American rabbinate. R. Lamm served as a prominent pulpit rabbi for over a quarter-century, first in Springfield, MA, and then at Manhattan's Jewish Center. As Rosh Ha-Yeshiva of Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, he presided over the training of multiple generations of young rabbis who went out to have a profound impact in synagogues, schools, and organizational life. Our editor, R. Jeffrey Saks, spoke with R. Menachem Penner and R. Benjamin Samuels about their essays in the memorial volume, which explored R. Lamm's energetic rabbinic leadership and his message and challenge to his rabbinic colleagues and students. Rabbi Menachem Penner is the Max and Marion Grill Dean of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Rabbi Benjamin J. Samuels, Ph.D., has been rabbi of Congregation Shaarei Tefillah in Newton, MA, since 1995 and teaches widely in the Greater Boston Jewish community. Watch a video recording of the conversation: https://youtu.be/2J3Znev0qCc Order your copy of the “Rabbi Norman Lamm Memorial Volume”: https://rabbis.org/product/tradition-norman-lamm-memorial-volume Sound clips in this episode from Rabbi Lamm's Centennial Chag HaSemichah address, “There is a Prophet in Israel” (April 6, 1986), courtesy of the Lamm Heritage Archives: www.yu.edu/about/lamm-heritage
Are you growing others in your leadership? We are all leaders in our own lives. There are always people who follow us, who we guide, and who we lead — whether at home, work, or social environments. Leaders dare to create and design, to serve others, and as souls, it's something natural and intuitive to us. I spoke with Dr. Erica Brown about the gift of leadership, and her sheer brilliance on the topic, as well as how she so strongly lives her lessons, made this such an impactful conversation. I hope you'll feel the same way and be more connected to your soulful self. For questions, comments, or feedback, feel free to email Srulifruchter@gmail.com *** Dr. Erica Brown, the director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership and an associate professor of curriculum and pedagogy at The George Washington University, is the author of twelve books on leadership, the Hebrew Bible and spirituality. Erica has a daily podcast, “Take Your Soul to Work.” Her latest book Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile (Maggid) was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Council award. She has been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, First Things, and The Jewish Review of Books, and she wrote a monthly column for the New York Jewish Week. She has blogged for Psychology Today, Newsweek & Washington Post's “On Faith” and JTA, and she. tweeted on one page of Talmud study a day @DrEricaBrown. She has master's degrees from the Institute of Education (University of London), Jews' College (University of London) and Harvard University, as well as a Ph.D. from Baltimore Hebrew University. Erica was a Jerusalem Fellow, is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation, an Avi Chai Fellow and the recipient of the 2009 Covenant Award for her work in education. She previously served as the scholar-in-residence at both The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston and as the community scholar for the Jewish Center of New York. She currently serves as a community scholar for Congregation Etz Chaim in Livingston, NJ.
Hosted by Jane Wernette, the latest episode of NCTV17's Spotlight features: 1) Joy Bozzelli and Rachel Brooks from Naperville Chorus 2) Dorletta Payton and Thomas Reed from DuPage County ACT-SO 3) Alta Goldstein and Shoshana Frank from Chabad Jewish Center 4) Beth DeGeeter and Miranda Barfuss from Naperville Jaycees Naperville Community Television broadcasts on Channel 17 in Naperville, IL (Comcast & WOW!), and all our programming is available via simulcast and video-on-demand at https://www.nctv17.com/ For daily local news sent to your inbox, subscribe to NCTV17 News Update: https://www.nctv17.com/subscribe/ Follow us on: https://www.facebook.com/NCTV17/ https://twitter.com/NCTV17 https://www.instagram.com/nctv17/
Combining faiths and religious traditions into a ceremony can be both beautiful and confusing. Our guest, Rabbi Block is the master of dual and even multi-faith ceremonies. And of course, being that he is a Rabbi, we are getting some great insight into Jewish ceremonies as well. Rabbi Kenneth Block began his rabbinical career in 1974 as the Rabbi of the Jewish Center in Havre de Grace, Maryland. In 1978, Rabbi Block was honored with the Boston College Alumni Association Award of Excellence for Religion. Rabbi Block retired after 40 years as an addiction Chaplain for the Veterans Administration Maryland Health Care Systems and as the Chaplain for the Bel Air, Maryland Volunteer Fire Company. Aside from the innumerable weddings and other religious and secular ceremonies Rabbi Block has performed in association with specific organizations, he has written and performed well over 500 ceremonies outside of those affiliations. Rabbi Block describes Jewish ceremonies, as well as weddings that are combined with other clergy and belief systems. Click HERE to become a premium subscriber and unlock all of the amazingness: Ad-free, full length episodes The TBWPP Wedding Planning Resource Center with Access to 6 mini courses of The Big Wedding Planning Master Class Wedding Planning Templates and Tools Big Takeaways There is a difference between being religious and being observant. Rabbi Block highlights how religion is about having relationships with others, so that makes marriage religious, inherently. Rabbi Block officiates many many weddings, and he is not only available to a certain crowd, or congregation. In fact, his credo is, “No couple should be denied the right to be joined together.” Fun history bit: Bridesmaids and groomsmen were originally included as a line of defense when two rival families came together. If the officiant is your dad and is also walking you down the aisle, logistically you should absolutely have a planner to help with this. There is a lot of thought that goes into this process and no one wants to be worried about this on their wedding day! If you must do it on your own, get all the right resources ahead of time (planning courses, etc.) so you aren't scrambling on the day of. Links We Referenced rabbionthego.com Rabbi Block on YouTube Washington Post Article Get In Touch: The Big Wedding Planning Podcast is… Hosted and produced by Michelle Martinez Music by Steph Altman of Mophonics On Instagram @thebigweddingplanningpodcast and be sure to use #planthatwedding when posting, so you can get our attention! Easy to get in touch with. Email us at hello@thebigweddingplanningpodcast.com or Call and leave a message at 415-723-1625 and you might hear your voice on an episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Combining faiths and religious traditions into a ceremony can be both beautiful and confusing. Our guest, Rabbi Block is the master of dual and even multi-faith ceremonies. And of course, being that he is a Rabbi, we are getting some great insight into Jewish ceremonies as well. Rabbi Kenneth Block (https://rabbionthego.com/) began his rabbinical career in 1974 as the Rabbi of the Jewish Center in Havre de Grace, Maryland. In 1978, Rabbi Block was honored with the Boston College Alumni Association Award of Excellence for Religion. Rabbi Block retired after 40 years as an addiction Chaplain for the Veterans Administration Maryland Health Care Systems and as the Chaplain for the Bel Air, Maryland Volunteer Fire Company. Aside from the innumerable weddings and other religious and secular ceremonies Rabbi Block has performed in association with specific organizations, he has written and performed well over 500 ceremonies outside of those affiliations. Rabbi Block describes Jewish ceremonies, as well as weddings that are combined with other clergy and belief systems. Big Takeaways * There is a difference between being religious and being observant. Rabbi Block highlights how religion is about having relationships with others, so that makes marriage religious, inherently. * Rabbi Block officiates many many weddings, and he is not only available to a certain crowd, or congregation. In fact, his credo is, “No couple should be denied the right to be joined together.” * Fun history bit: Bridesmaids and groomsmen were originally included as a line of defense when two rival families came together. * If the officiant is your dad and is also walking you down the aisle, logistically you should absolutely have a planner to help with this. There is a lot of thought that goes into this process and no one wants to be worried about this on their wedding day! If you must do it on your own, get all the right resources ahead of time (planning courses, etc.) so you aren't scrambling on the day of. Links We Referenced rabbionthego.com (https://rabbionthego.com/) Rabbi Block on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrGzwWwGKWrgKfU53XPjYbA) Washington Post Article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-jewish-wedding-for-two-non-jews/2011/10/14/gIQAwaRvYN_story.html) Quotes “People [often] say, ‘I'm not religious.' Well if you weren't religious you wouldn't be talking to me, so it's important to separate being religious from being observant.” - Rabbi Block “The goal is always one ceremony, two traditions, regardless of what the two traditions are.” - Rabbi Block “I have come a millimeter from being Obi-Wan. I have been two millimeters from being Gandalf. But, always a bridesmaid, never a bride.” - Rabbi Block “It's always what the couple wants, not what I want.” - Rabbi Block “There are no wedding ceremonies described in old or new testament.” - Rabbi Block Plan your wedding using The Big Wedding Planning Master Class (https://www.thebigweddingplanningmasterclass.com/). A self-paced digital course created with love for you by Christy & Michelle. The Big Wedding Planning Podcast is... * Hosted and produced by Christy Matthews and Michelle Martinez. * Edited by Veronica Gruba. * Music by Steph Altman of Mophonics (https://www.mophonics.com/). * On Instagram @thebigweddingplanningpodcast and be sure to use #planthatwedding when posting, so you can get our attention! * Inviting you to become part of our Facebook Group! Join us and our amazing members. Just search for The Big Wedding Planning Podcast Community on Facebook. * Easy to get in touch with. Email us at thebigweddingplanningpodcast@gmail.com or Call and leave a message at 415-723-1625 and you might hear your voice on an episode * On Patreon. Become a member (https://suitshop.com/?utm_campaign=EngagedLeads&utm_content=BWPPPartnership&utm_medium=BWPP&utm_source=ReferralLink) and with as little as $5 per month, you get bonuse episodes, special newsletters and Zoom Cocktail Hours with Christy & Michelle! Our Partners (https://www.thebigweddingplanningpodcast.com/partners) Special Deals for Listeners - TBWPP Enthusiastically Approved! Wedfuly (https://wedfuly.com/bigwedding/) SuitShop (https://suitshop.com/?utm_campaign=EngagedLeads&utm_content=BWPPPartnership&utm_medium=BWPP&utm_source=ReferralLink) FlowerMoxie (https://flowermoxie.com/pages/the-big-wedding-podcast) The Flashdance (https://www.theflashdance.com/virtual-party-the-big-wedding-planning-podcast) Cactus Collective (https://www.cactus-collective.com/the-big-wedding-planning-podcast/) Unboring Wedding Academy (https://www.unboringweddingacademy.com/bigwedding/)
In this episode of BS'ing with Sean K , Sean Kneese talks to activists Awdah Al-hathalean and Sam Stein about Gaza, Sheikh Jarah, The West Bank and the struggle for Palestinian rights. Awdah and Sam met while Sam was with a group called Jewish Center for Non-Violence. He stayed with Awdah in his home in the Palestinian village of El Kherson for several months and celebrated Ramadan with him and his family. He was with Awdah and other Palestinians as they were being attacked by radical settlers. Sam talks about growing up in an Orthodox Jewish household, and how he started to become more critical of Israeli policy towards Palestinians as he got older. Awdah talks about life in his village El Kherson, life for people in Gaza and the human rights abuses Palestinians face on a regular basis. He also talks about how meeting Sam and other Jewish people fighting for Palestinian rights changed his perspective as well. “Since their first meeting, Sam and Awdah have become best of friends and are living proof that Jews and Palestinians can stand together for justice.Article about Malak Mattar: https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/the-last-time-i-felt-young-was-when?fbclid=IwAR1TQ-w3v-WuA7cnlZgabXnh2DOwB5h9F7U1lwijJcKaul-i1HjLl-0dl0oMy podcast with the amazing Malak: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0NysoxFP3SjmnprmFDWxYC?si=5KzrlayHSL-1zUMuhRiN4w&dl_branch=1Malak's BBC appearance: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-57148368Full video clip with Noura Erakat on Katie Halper Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTzcJhOLkkQ&t=283sJewish center for Non Violence fundraiser for Women Against Demolitions: https://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/donate_cjnv_special_fund?fbclid=IwAR07L-oMc-VBYdY2JdyYS2M0zlQO4NlngMu5mxDO6R8uZGsPRX52mAt0HxMOther good articles/links/podcasts on this topic: https://theintercept.com/2021/05/14/palestine-israel-hamas-netanyahu-biden/?utm_campaign=theintercept&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2w7g0haWbvPRBcuSeydT-IKA-H79Xcv452LnWskdh8YKkzKGsxFLzHGB0https://theintercept.com/2021/05/12/israel-palestine-jerusalem-social-media/?utm_campaign=theintercept&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2P4vRWCCXpZ3iDo43hqZcOmcUFx8SIwfydnLuYy2tVwuuLu46hWmHJ2nchttps://theintercept.com/2021/05/11/not-fine-video-ultranationalist-frenzy-jerusalem-unsettling/?utm_campaign=theintercept&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1ho6txjqIoU-uuDvsTf3XDciJby3PnAsMzGIaM0vhttps://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210430-palestinians-facing-eviction-rescued-my-family-says-jewish-professor/?fbclid=IwAR06DBCUutoyxKVxHKAQ5V-uIa38TRgKs9H4qYz-7d89-v-jOeGd53_nqQs#.YJBLzIURcAt.facebookhttps://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-lehava-extremist-group-marching-jerusalem?fbclid=IwAR2UhCgrQhI-w5T866a3R5vUv9DCxVssuH8qG19tnQMtYwD1uoZ2bzRDmYIhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/25KcU5gBvfCNJzOH71KEgN?si=4ddef0503ca84782https://open.spotify.com/episode/12HhnHNOtHH1K7A048dMJl?si=307e9b32508940dchttps://open.spotify.com/episode/4BAeWJJImNQfopCjsnn5Nm?si=XN8in4zHTh6KoizyTv_s3A&dl_branch=1https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-israel-narrative-is-crumbling?fbclid=IwAR10VeDc4fRimTU4-HoI7VPjAvbk0NOdmpH4T8LGkl5AUkQq4vVdyZEcOa8
Mark is delighted to welcome Dr. Elana Stein Hain to the podcast today. In addition to her role as the Director of Faculty at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, Elana also co-leads the Created Equal research team, and is a widely well-regarded teacher and scholar. She has served for eight years as a clergy member on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, at both Lincoln Square Synagogue and the Jewish Center, and has taught at the Wagner School at NYU. The passage she has chosen to discuss with Mark today is Jeremiah 28. Elana begins by reviewing her doctoral dissertation on legal loopholes in rabbinic law, exploring examples of both the letter and spirit of the law, and then summarizing today’s passage and its significance for her. She and Mark discuss the differing models of leadership demonstrated within the passage and how these models are evident in America today, the complexities and demands of religion, the tendency among some to gravitate toward ‘cheap grace’, and the difference between the prophetic and the rabbinic. As with all episodes, our guest draws it to a close by sharing the lessons she has learned about humankind. From start to finish, the conversation here today is filled with fascinating ideas with very real implications in modern society, a function of the eternal guidance of this remarkable text. Episode Highlights: · Elana’s dissertation on legal loopholes in rabbinic law · Selling chametz before Passover · Elena’s summary of the passage and its significance for her · Leadership and the message of agency · Morality and politics in America today · The complexities and demands of religion · Gravitating toward ‘cheap grace’ · The difference between prophetic and rabbinic · The lessons about humankind that Elana has learned Quotes: “Some of my religious life was constructed around loopholes.” “You can actually sometimes use the letter of the law in order to fulfill the spirit of the law.” “You actually have to work on your relationship with God, you have to work on your relationship with people.” “Everybody is going to want to listen to the guy who gives the easy version.” “He actually wants the people to get it right.” “There’s going to be nothing easy about this.” “They turn it into politics when it’s really about morality, and that, I think, happens all the time.” “I always wonder, as an educator, whether we sell religion short by not talking about its complexities, by not talking about its demands.” “Are we created in God’s image or is God created in our image?” “We can justify anything.” “It’s really seeing something much bigger than oneself. We’re not the center of the story.” “So many people think that they’re the only one.” “You get to be there for a person and they know they’re not going to be judged.” “Your problem becomes your security blanket.” Jeremiah 28 - https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.28.1-17?lang=bi Links: The Rabbi’s Husband homepage: The Rabbi's Husband Mark’s Twitter: Mark Gerson - The Rabbi's Husband (@markgerson) The Rabbi’s Husband Newsletter contact: daniel@therabbishusband.com
Jennifer is the CEO of American Friends of Tel Aviv University. She was previously Vice President of UJA-Federation of New York, overseeing its Affinity Campaign, which raised over $78 million annually. .Before joining UJA professionally in 2014, she was a principal and managing director at Archview Investment Group, an event-driven credit opportunity hedge fund seeded by Blackstone. She is a chair of AIPAC’s Women’s Division, a member and past chair of Hadassah’s Investment Group, and a board member of the Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach, Meir Panim, and Northwestern University Hillel.
Peggy Sullivan is a high energy results-driven individual who is passionate about raising the bar for herself and others. She loves a challenge and believes the pride that comes from achieving a stretch goal is intoxicating, like running her first marathon at 50 years. Peggy has enjoyed executive positions in marketing communications, operations, and customer experience at national/international companies like BlueCross BlueShield, United Healthcare, Materion, and Benderson Development. Peggy's blueprint for success is to work hard, be humble, and give back. When not at work Peggy loves anything active, spending time with friends, and helping others. She is also on the board of Directors for the Jewish Center of Buffalo. In this episode of the Woman of Value Podcast: - Why it's important to have 'she time' every day - Get yourself some bubbles...learn why - The keys to a fulfilled life - The power of our thoughts and mindset - The importance of giving back
Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, is Mark’s very special guest on the podcast today. In addition to leading one of the premier institutions in Jewish life, Rabbi Berman has served as the pulpit Rabbi at the Jewish Center in Manhattan, and is a scholar in his own right. He also lectures widely throughout the U.S. and Israel, and has written numerous articles on subjects including current trends in Jewish thought and the future of Orthodoxy. The passage he has chosen to discuss with Mark today is The Akedah (Genesis 22). Rabbi Berman begins the conversation by sharing his summary of the passage, why it is important for him, and the significance of the use of the word ‘hineni’ in it. He and Mark then examine the resolution of the tension found in Abraham being heneni for God and Isaac, Isaac’s takeaway from this event, and the lesson that The Akedah offers, particularly during the current pandemic. They also discuss the two directions The Akedah gives, Mark’s notion of a hineni for our mission in life, and they conclude with the lessons Rabbi Berman has learned about mankind. As Rabbi Berman notes, we are 'seeking the wisdom of our 3000 year old tradition which is the greatest gift that God has given humanity…enabling a lot of people to find what they seek’. Episode Highlights: · Rabbi Berman’s summary of The Akedah and its importance for him · The significance Abraham’s use of the word ‘heneni’ in the passage · Resolving the tension of Abraham being heneni for God and for Isaac · Isaac’s ‘takeaway’ from this event · The lesson of The Akedah and why it is essential throughout time, particularly during the current pandemic · The two directions The Akedah gives · The third heneni: to our mission · The lessons that Rabbi Berman has learned about mankind Quotes: “I am here for you.” “The Torah doesn’t report small talk.” “He actually can’t be heneni for both of them…but he says he is.” “Abraham the servant and Abraham the father – they’re both precious to God. And you do not have to sacrifice one for the other – God does not want you to sacrifice.” “The difference between Judaism and Christianity in this sense is that in our tradition, the son does not die. “ “Isaac was perpetuating the legacy of his father.” “The Torah speaks so beautifully in its silences, too.” “Every moment can be a ‘heneni moment’.” “We go through life, often sleepwalking through life.” “We must give ourselves with kindness and compassion, be present in their lives in all ways that we can. You know, in this world it could be by Zoom at times.” “Everyone has a different purpose. Everyone has a different mission. Everyone has different skills and talents.” “We’re at our best when we are seekers.” “If you want to be a sage, you have to remain a talmid, you always have to remain a student.” The Akedah - https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.22.1-19?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en Links: The Rabbi’s Husband homepage: http://therabbishusband.com/ Mark’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgerson?lang=en
#34.With Rabbi Yosie Levine (Rabbi of The Jewish Center) discussing the topic of his recently completed dissertation, the Chacham Tzvi.We discuss his life, works, controversies and more
On Episode 13, I chat with Rabbi Dr. Saul Haimoff, a licensed clinical psychologist, with a specialty in children with behavioral and anxiety disorders. He received his PsyD from Long Island University - Post, and trained at sites such as: the Child Mind Institute, NYU Child Study Center, Northwell Health Cohen's Children's Hospital, New York City Children's Center (Queens), Hofstra University and the Center for Anxiety. Additionally, he received his Rabbinical Degree from Yeshiva University and has many years of experience working in Jewish schools, shuls, and camps. He currently serves as the Head Rabbi of the Brandeis School in Lawrence, NY and The Associate Rabbi of the Jewish Center in Atlantic Beach, NY. He has recently teamed up with David H. Rosmarin, PhD, ABPP, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and director of the McLean Hospital Spirituality and Mental Health Program. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Anxiety, which has offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Monsey to Co-Author the book titled: The Handbook of Torah and Mental Health. Rabbi Dr. Saul Haimoff shares with us some specific sources from the Torah that clearly correlates to todays Modern Psychology and ways of handling our mental health. Have the answers been there all along? Have we missed it? Thanks to this new volume, we can start by simply delving into the Torah for some answers... Shop the book here! Follow On Instagram for some daily insights: @torahandmentalhealth *** Remember to SUBSCRIBE! LEAVE A REVIEW! FWD TO FRIENDS! and of course, FOLLOW! @chatwithbetty @bettygulko chatwithbettypodcast@gmail.com for any inquiries or requests! *** --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/betty-gulko/support
1. Tips (that actually work) for staying sane in a crisis. 2. My guest today is Rabbi Joshua Franklin of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. You don't have to be Jewish to listen to his words of wisdom and spiritual guidance in helping us deal with today's contemporary crises. To Life and Love, XXXBEATTY
We're often told that nothing stands in the way of Teshuva, and yet the Mishnah and the Rambam say, "not so fast". What to do when Teshuva seems impossible? Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j0ov_ZP5AIwm3zl8knY6KYcI24VdZVCWaVwOYg2i_BE/edit?usp=sharing Mount Sinai Jewish Center, 9.26.19
Dr. Erica Brown, director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership and an associate professor of curriculum and pedagogy at The George Washington University (http://www.ericabrown.com/) presented her roundtable learning session "Where Have All The Leaders Gone" before Valley Beit Midrash's opening event in Sept. 2019. LEARNING MATERIALS: https://bit.ly/2kwyzlV ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Dr. Erica Brown is an associate professor of curriculum and pedagogy at The George Washington University and the director of its Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership. She is the author of twelve books on leadership, the Hebrew Bible and spirituality; her forthcoming commentary is The Book of Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile (Koren/OU). She has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Tablet and The Jewish Review of Books and wrote a monthly column for the New York Jewish Week. She has blogged for Psychology Today, Newsweek/Washington Post’s “On Faith” and JTA and tweets on one page of Talmud study a day at DrEricaBrown. Erica has degrees from Yeshiva University, University of London, Harvard University and Baltimore Hebrew University. She previously served as the scholar-in-residence at both The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston and as the community scholar for the Jewish Center of New York. Erica was a Jerusalem Fellow, is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation, an Avi Chai Fellow and the recipient of the 2009 Covenant Award for her work in education. She currently serves as a community scholar for Congregation Etz Chaim in Livingston, NJ. Erica is also the author of Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet, Take Your Soul to Work: 365 Meditations on Every Day Leadership and Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death (Simon and Schuster), which won both the Wilbur and Nautilus awards for spiritual writing. Her previous books include Inspired Jewish Leadership, a National Jewish Book Award finalist, Spiritual Boredom, Confronting Scandal and co-authored The Case for Jewish Peoplehood (All Jewish Lights). She also wrote Seder Talk: A Conversational Haggada, Leadership in the Wilderness, In the Narrow Places and Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe (All OU/Koren). This Valley Beit Midrash lecture took place before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ. For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/temple.chai twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Dr. Erica Brown, director of its Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership and an associate professor of curriculum and pedagogy at The George Washington University (http://www.ericabrown.com/) presented the first annual Sherman Minkoff Memorial Lecture titled "Time to Change? Jewish Identity for the 21st Century," the opening event of Valley Beit Midrash's 2019-2020 Jaburg-Wilk Learning Season LEARNING MATERIALS: https://bit.ly/2kHSY7x ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Dr. Erica Brown is an associate professor of curriculum and pedagogy at The George Washington University and the director of its Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership. She is the author of twelve books on leadership, the Hebrew Bible and spirituality; her forthcoming commentary is The Book of Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile (Koren/OU). She has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Tablet and The Jewish Review of Books and wrote a monthly column for the New York Jewish Week. She has blogged for Psychology Today, Newsweek/Washington Post’s “On Faith” and JTA and tweets on one page of Talmud study a day at DrEricaBrown. Erica has degrees from Yeshiva University, University of London, Harvard University and Baltimore Hebrew University. She previously served as the scholar-in-residence at both The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston and as the community scholar for the Jewish Center of New York. Erica was a Jerusalem Fellow, is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation, an Avi Chai Fellow and the recipient of the 2009 Covenant Award for her work in education. She currently serves as a community scholar for Congregation Etz Chaim in Livingston, NJ. Erica is also the author of Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet, Take Your Soul to Work: 365 Meditations on Every Day Leadership and Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death (Simon and Schuster), which won both the Wilbur and Nautilus awards for spiritual writing. Her previous books include Inspired Jewish Leadership, a National Jewish Book Award finalist, Spiritual Boredom, Confronting Scandal and co-authored The Case for Jewish Peoplehood (All Jewish Lights). She also wrote Seder Talk: A Conversational Haggada, Leadership in the Wilderness, In the Narrow Places and Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe (All OU/Koren). This Valley Beit Midrash lecture took place before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ. For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/temple.chai twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rivka Nahari has had many years of training and performing experience in both music and dance. She began her ballet training at age 3 and studied in the pre-professional program at the Academy of Nevada Dance Theater where she continued until her graduation from high school. While at the Academy, she performed yearly in the "Nutracker" ballet and "Cinderella" with the Nevada Dance Theater professional company and danced in numerous performances with the Academy of Nevada Dance Theater Youth Company. She then continued her dance studies at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). She has also been trained in tap, jazz, character, and flamenco. Musically, Rivka has studied the Old Italian School of singing and has performed in such operas as La Boheme, Un Ballo in Maschera, L'elisir D'amore, and Aida. She is also a concert pianist who has concertized throughout Las Vegas, New York, and Italy. She has been a professional harpist since the age of 13, playing with numerous orchestras throughout Las Vegas. She is also an accomplished flutist and has extensive experience singing in choir, performing in many of the hotels in Las Vegas and singing back-up for such notable artists as Barry Manilow, Celine Dion, and Michael Jackson and the Jackson Family. Years after becoming observant, Rivka opened the Jewish Center for the Performing Arts (previously known as the Brooklyn Jewish Dance Institute), which offers professional level classes in acting, ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, contemporary, hip hop, and breaking for all ages in a frum environment. For more info about classes, please visit www.jewishperformingarts.com
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This week on The Clergy Suite: Special guest, Rabbi Joel Simonds, founder of the Jewish Center for Justice in Los Angeles talks about Climate Change, Criminal Justice Reform and Advocacy for Israel. Rabbi Simonds and Rabbi Frimmer also take time to explore the intersection of Judaism and Justice, tapping the potential of overworked parents' late night social media posts, and giving Jews a voice, identity and platform to build a more just and compassionate world. Click here to learn more about JCJ: http://jewishcenterforjustice.org/
Today on IsraelCast , we welcome Rabbi Ari Lamm to the program! One of the great, young, thought- leaders of our time. He’s the special advisor the president of Yeshiva University, with whom he works closely on all matters concerning the university’s mission and vision. He also oversees intellectual and philosophical initiatives emerging from the office of the president. Most recently, he was the resident scholar at the Jewish Center of Manhattan. He’s a founding editor and contributor at The Lehrhaus, a forum to generate thoughtful and dynamic discourse around Jewish ideas.
A Jewish Center was shot up by a crazed madman. The guy hated Trump, but the media is quick to blame Trump. A push for new gun laws has started. Free speech platform Gab has been shut down. Is it time to make registrars utilities? The pipe bomber was caught in Florida in his Trump super van. He has some screws loose. Let's talk about him and his political affiliation. Speaking of Florida, a GOP office was shot up in South Daytona. Are we getting that close to a tipping point? Megyn Kelley fired because she couldn't understand why blackface is offensive. Yeah that wasn't going to go over well.
Janine Wolf spoke with breast cancer survivor Michelle Caplan who says she made it through breast cancer largely due to the support of her family, friends at the Jewish Center, and her co-workers at Nike.
July 18, 2018 marks the 24th anniversary since the tragic bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin talks with B'nai B'rith International's Special Advisor on Latin American Affairs Adriana Camisar about a critical recent development in this case. Alberto Nisman, the federal prosecutor who had been investigating the case, was found dead in his apartment in January of 2015, right after accusing the Argentinian government of giving cover to Iran for planning and executing the bombing via its proxy Hezbollah. A federal chamber ruled--three and a half years later--that Nisman's death was indeed a murder and not a suicide.
This week, Uri and Rivky break down a recent fascinating panel called Social Justice in Modern Orthodoxy. The panel took place in the Jewish Center, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and was co-hosted by the UJA and Hitoreri. Sitting on the panel: Dr. Elana Stein Hain, Rabbi Saul Berman, and Rabbi Elie Weinstock. They ask, what is social justice? Should it be part of Modern Orthodoxy, and if so, why isn’t it? What did we learn from this panel, if anything? Catch up on everything below: The panel: https://vimeo.com/256616927 Music in the show: We Are the World, USA For Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRiqpd9pRbI
On today's show we discuss… RIP: Bill Paxton, Actor – “Aliens”, “Predator 2”, “True Lies”, “Apollo 13”, “Twister” – age 61 RIP: Judge Joseph Wapner, presided over The People's Court passed away @ 97 Before we get started: And the Oscar goes to… What's up with all the Jewish Center and Cemetery attacks? And Now…Trump Talk...SAD: Trump refused the to go to the Correspondents Dinner Bad form at the Govenor's Dinner What do we expect from the address? Trump already campaigning for 2020 in a post win Rally: False stories about Sweden having issues with immigrants Almost Forgot …Donald Trump's White House communications director, Jason Miller, backed out of the job following claims that he had an affair with another transition official.
Restoring Vitality: A Community Project"The Orthodox Jewish Community is not immune to many of the common emotional ails and their consequences that present to the rest of the world. Anxiety, depression, substance abuse, infidelity, loneliness and frustration are all too prevalent.Under the direction of Rabbi Twerski, bringing the 3 Principles to our community has revolutionized the manner in which these issues are understood and as a result, addressed - with astonishing results in education, family dynamics, organizational success and personal resiliency." http://twerskiwellnessinstitute.weebly.com/Join Jen Lucas for the second interview in our series of community building. Learn from Tzvi Werther and Henry Harris how the 3 principles is transforming and building the Orthodox Jewish community. This is an opportunity for anyone interested in helping their own community to call in and get support!Bio:Henry Harris: Originally from the Washington DC area, Henry completed a rabbinic degree in Jerusalem and then served for 14 years as Educational Director at the Aish HaTorah adult education center in Manhattan. He describes the principles of Innate Health as "a blessing in helping me discover a deeper insight in my understanding of Jewish wisdom, not to mention a more peaceful experience of the most important things in my life." In 2013 he founded the Jewish Center for Wellbeing and has had the opportunity to deepen his understanding of the principles under the guidance of Dr. George Pransky and Cathy Casey.Tzvi Werther was born and raised in Milwaukee where he formed a deep bond with Rabbi and Rebbetzin Twerski. At their request, Tzvi has led the formation and organization of the Twerski Wellness Institute with the mission of bringing an understanding of Innate Health and the Three Principles to the Jewish Community, including the annual NY-NJ Innate Health Conference. Tzvi is one of 11 siblings, all of who are male, who keep him honest.
Harav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l - Shloshim: Jewish Center #1, by Dr. Tovah Lichtenstein Monday June 1st 2015, at the Jewish Center, West 86th St, NY
Harav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l - Shloshim: Jewish Center #3, by Rabbi Dr. Michael Rosensweig Monday June 1st 2015, at the Jewish Center, West 86th St, NY
Harav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l - Shloshim: Jewish Center #2, by Harav Mosheh Lichtenstein Monday June 1st 2015, at the Jewish Center, West 86th St, NY
Harav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l - Shloshim: Jewish Center #4, by Rav Shlomo Brin (hebrew) Monday June 1st 2015, at the Jewish Center, West 86th St, NY
Harav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l - Shloshim: Jewish Center - Siyum by Rabbi Daniel Fridman, with opening remarks by Rabbi Yosie Levine
Listen to Rabbi Sacks' keynote address at The Jewish Center in New York. This lecture was delivered as part of his engagement with Yeshiva University.
OPERA PROJECT COLUMBUS presents Leoncavallo's Pagliacci (Clowns) at the Jewish Center of Columbus on Saturday June 14 and Sunday the 15. Alessandro Siciliani conducts. Your obedient servant, the chubby, elderly broadcaster Christopher Purdy, directs the opera.
The Passive Aggressive Podcast with Ben Rosenfeld and Bobby haha
Mike, Bobby and Ben discuss Tax Day, Giulio Gallarotti's call in, the Jewish Center shooting, last weekend's boxing match of Pacquiao vs Bradley, the passing of John Pinette and Otto from Otto and George and the possible Ukrainian civil war.
Shloshim ceremony in the Jewish Center, NY on August 9th. In part 2 we hear: Harav Yaakov Medan [hebrew] and Rav Binyamin Tabory
Shloshim ceremony in the Jewish Center, NY on August 9th. In part 3 we hear: Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt
Shloshim ceremony in the Jewish Center, NY on August 9th. In part 1 we hear: Asst Rabbi Ariel Rackovsky, Arye Colton, Leon Moed, Cantor David Berson, and Harav Mosheh Lichtenstein
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