Living in the COVID World ... and Beyond #36: On a Podcast with My Rabbi

This blog is different than all of the others.  It is different because after a short introduction there will be a link to a podcast in which I am in a 50-minute discussion with the rabbi of my local synagogue.   I hope you will listen to it.

Background:

My rabbi started a podcast a few months ago.    It is called Heretics Standing at Sinai (our synagogue is Temple Sinai).   He has been using a text, Open Secrets by Rami Shapiro, and reads a chapter on each podcast.  The book is written by a modern Jewish thinker but is organized as a series of fictitious letters written by a turn of the 19th century Russian rabbi to a congregant who has migrated to the United States.   After my rabbi started the podcast, he invited congregants to join him in a discussion of the text.

Now, I am no Jewish theologian nor philosopher.   But I enjoyed listening to the podcast.  And so, I volunteered to participate.  If you listen, you’ll hear more about how I think about my Jewish upbringing as well as other thoughts that this particular chapter generated for my rabbi and for me.

Here is the link to the podcast series: https://www.templesinaistamford.org/heretics-podcast.html.  

My session is E16 – To Listen and to Love.

Enjoy!