As a Rosh Hashana gift to ourselves (and our listeners) we spent an hour with the Beyonce of Rabbis, the honey to our apple, the horseradish to our Gefilte - Rabbi David Wolpe! 

He joins us from Cambridge where he is a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School (ohh-la-la), though you may remember him from such rabbinical masterpieces as “Most Influential Rabbi in America” (Newsweek), and “50 Most Influential Angelinos” (LA Magazine). A frequent cordial sparring partner of atheists like Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, today he is the Senior Advisor at Maimonides Fund and the inaugural Rabbinic Fellow for the ADL. Yes, that ADL. And yes - we go there!

The man is a treasure trove of deep thoughts about ethics, faith and the human condition, so naturally when granted an hour of his time we choose to pick his brain about diet books and Elon Musk. Among the pillars of our talk:

🔔 A record breaking Holocaust bell at 2:40 into the interview 🔔 

• Unironic discussion of generational trauma
• The world is super random
• Why is there no Rabbi Dre or Rabbi Pepper?
• The biggest human problems he sees all the time
• Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. - C.S Lewis
• Blame it on the pill
• A vision of a successful marriage
• Wait, is the rabbi single??
• Talmudic lessons from the 1990 Patrick Swayze masterpiece “Ghost”
• Human nature is…problematic.
• Post Sinai life
• Check out amazing online lessons at the Streiker Center
• The tyranny of the Thank You Note
• Jews are just like everyone else, only more so
• The ADL Vs. Musk - pick your fighter.
• Secular Vs. Orthodox - pick your fighter.

 

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