Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Bradley Shavit Artson who is asking: How do we unlock the capacity of religion to allow us to experience joy and connection?
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Citations mentioned:
Neff, Kristin D. "Self‐compassion, self‐esteem, and well‐being." Social and personality psychology compass 5.1 (2011): 1-12.
Artson, Bradley Shavit. “Wells of Wisdom”, in progress: What resources does Jewish wisdom bring to the conversation for people on how to organize their spiritual lives?
Hebrew Bible https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Tanakh
Krumrei-Mancuso, Elizabeth J., et al. "Toward an understanding of collective intellectual humility." Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2024).
Checketts, Levi. Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2024.
The Talmud: https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Talmud
Terms mentioned:
Religio: "respect for what is sacred, reverence for the gods; conscientiousness, sense of right, moral obligation; fear of the gods; divine service, religious observance; a religion, a faith, a mode of worship, cult; sanctity, holiness," in Late Latin "monastic life" (https://www.etymonline.com/word/religio-)
Seder: “a Jewish home or community service including a ceremonial dinner held on the first or first and second evenings of the Passover in commemoration of the exodus from Egypt” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seder)
Planck Time: “the length of time at which no smaller meaningful length can be validly measured due to the indeterminacy expressed in Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Theoretically, this is the shortest time measurement that is possible” (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time)
People mentioned :
Moses
My wife
My parents
My grandparents
People I run into who may offer a throwaway comment
Teachers, Rabbis
God
Transcript:
Producer & editor:
Joshua Mendel
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