In honor of our one year anniversary, our first ever guest, religious scholar Tomer Persico, returns to the pod for another intellectually and spiritually satisfying conversation — this time IRL. (Check out our original convo first if you haven't already). This time Tomer, author of Man in God’s Image, dives right into the ancient concept of the self, jumps to the creation of interiority/individuality, expounds on the isolation of America, and comes for a landing on the old, new, and ugly of Israeli politics.

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On the agenda:

-Happy anniversary, us! (Adaam’s Ishiguro essay)

-Two Jews. One mic.

-Recap: The Image of God

-The birth of the inner world

-But, science! (My physics friend dissents)

-Bye bye, Empire

-Loneliness and totalitarianism

-So what did I miss (in Israel)?

-The flattening of our politics

-Arthur Koestler

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