Social Missions are an important part of many people's life. Doug and Evan talk about the impact of COVID on social missions and their importance to our lives and holistic wellbeing.
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Welcome to the terminal value Podcast where each episode provides in depth insight about the long term value of companies and ideas in our current world. Your host for this podcast is Doug Utberg, the founder and principal consultant for Business of Life, LLC.
Doug: In the city of Chicago Evan Moffic is a rabbi but also an associate of mine. Ivan, how are you doing?
Evan: I'm doing great, Doug. It's wonderful to be on the podcast and, you know, talk about some of the amazing work you're doing.
Doug: Oh, thank you appreciate that. Well, so actually, but Evan, of course, what I'd like to do today is to talk about you, I know you have a, you have a pretty significant social mission that you've been serving with your synagogue. And one of the things that I like to bring to my listeners on the podcast, is just different views, you know, kind of views from different parts of life, the, you know, just the things that make everybody unique, the anti mainstream view of life in America, you might say ,so yeah, take it away.
Evan: Well, you know, I guess, what we do is just try to serve the Jewish community and try to serve the community more broadly, really, just trying to be with people in important moments, you know, when people are, you know, getting surgery or experiencing illness, visiting with them, highlighting some of the work that our congregants do in the community, you know, working at soup kitchens, and, you know, fighting gun violence, we just have a lot of, you know, we have a strong social mission to really kind of make a difference in the community and be with people in their most important moments.
Doug: Yeah.
Evan: And it varies, it changes all the time. Sometimes it's, sometimes I've got, you know, a lot of tutoring lined up for the day. And another day, it's, you know, funerals.
Doug: Yeah.
Evan: So it kind of varies, but all of it centers around just serving people.
Doug: Well, and I'd love to hear your fear. How's COVID impacted all this, just because I've, you know, what I've observed is that a lot of people are going through quite a bit of social isolation. And in theory, a religious community would have to be an outlet valve for that. But for example, where I'm at, there's a state puts pretty strict headcount limitations on worship service. And, you know, attending a zoom worship service isn't really the same thing. And not being able to socialize after worship service still isn't really the same thing. So kind of what's your observation on how people are hoping long term impacts are going to be?
Evan: It's a great question, and the long term impacts are getting harder to predict. But I can tell you that I'm much more optimistic now than I was at the beginning.
Doug: I think to here.
Evan: it is, you know, because I saw people really came together. Of course, zoom is not nearly as good as being together in person. But what it has done, is it to allow people to connect, and to participate in worship, without the without having to get out of their homes and go to the synagogue. And that's hard. I mean, we have a lot of older...
