I’m enjoying this so much! Congratulations on your inaugural; I’m looking forward to learning more!
I think the idea of “deed not creed” is fascinating: having a structure of life that is mostly unchanged and practiced by people for thousands of years prior even as the particulars change.
This is my new favorite thing, I loved this so much! It scratches an itch in my heart of seeking Hashem. The discussion on how rabbis coped with the destruction of the temple was especially fascinating.
This was great, thank you. I especially enjoyed the discussion toward the end about the idea of creation of a fully-formed world, complete with evidence of its having existed longer, is comparable with what’s written in the Torah about the creation of Adam as a fully formed adult human. I’m still not convinced 😅but this comparison to Adam does make the argument (that the world was created much more recently than archeological and geological evidence suggests) at least feel robust and internally consistent, less like the bumbling afterthought/excuse it’s always seemed like to me.
Overall, I loved the first episode. Rabbi Perlmutter is my favorite guest on Ask a Jew (and I've been a day 1 listener), so I'm looking forward to future episodes.
But.
Jay's engagement with atheistic morality wasn't so much offensive as embarrassingly thoughtless and ill-informed; I had to pause for a while. Rabbi Perlmutter engaged the question with much more grace, but it was a very awkward digression nonetheless.
Anyhow, I love the scope and scale of the topics planned and look forward to the next episodes.
(what's the proper address for the Rabbi here anyway? I refer to him as "ChayaLeah's dad" when discussing with my wife, but that seems unideal)
"Thoughtless and ill-informed" might be kind of mean. I do apologize to Jay, but it's just difficult to come up with a way to explain how I feel about the segment that doesn't come out kind of mean. I can't do it even in retrospect, but that's just down to a lack of a way with words, I suspect.
I’m enjoying this so much! Congratulations on your inaugural; I’m looking forward to learning more!
I think the idea of “deed not creed” is fascinating: having a structure of life that is mostly unchanged and practiced by people for thousands of years prior even as the particulars change.
This is my new favorite thing, I loved this so much! It scratches an itch in my heart of seeking Hashem. The discussion on how rabbis coped with the destruction of the temple was especially fascinating.
Thanks Sam!
This was great, thank you. I especially enjoyed the discussion toward the end about the idea of creation of a fully-formed world, complete with evidence of its having existed longer, is comparable with what’s written in the Torah about the creation of Adam as a fully formed adult human. I’m still not convinced 😅but this comparison to Adam does make the argument (that the world was created much more recently than archeological and geological evidence suggests) at least feel robust and internally consistent, less like the bumbling afterthought/excuse it’s always seemed like to me.
Looking forward to more!
Overall, I loved the first episode. Rabbi Perlmutter is my favorite guest on Ask a Jew (and I've been a day 1 listener), so I'm looking forward to future episodes.
But.
Jay's engagement with atheistic morality wasn't so much offensive as embarrassingly thoughtless and ill-informed; I had to pause for a while. Rabbi Perlmutter engaged the question with much more grace, but it was a very awkward digression nonetheless.
Anyhow, I love the scope and scale of the topics planned and look forward to the next episodes.
(what's the proper address for the Rabbi here anyway? I refer to him as "ChayaLeah's dad" when discussing with my wife, but that seems unideal)
"Thoughtless and ill-informed" might be kind of mean. I do apologize to Jay, but it's just difficult to come up with a way to explain how I feel about the segment that doesn't come out kind of mean. I can't do it even in retrospect, but that's just down to a lack of a way with words, I suspect.