Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded live on Clubhouse. This week's parsha includes a blessing about goodness, delivered by a prophet of the nations that is so inspiring it is used to initiate the morning prayers in Jewish houses of worship of every denomination and until today. This week another 20-something kid took a gun and killed and tried to kill. A NY Times editorialist wrote that: "Though details remain sparse, this appears to be a story less about fanatical partisanship than about the crisis of lonely and disconnected young men being radicalized into pure nihilism." So we celebrate the simple good of pitching a tent and sitting with one's fellow.

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Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2024/07/17/how-good-was-that/