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Podcast: The Fifth Question
Episode: Will AI Replace Artists and Rabbis?
Description: Welcome back to the Fifth Question Podcast — I’m your host, Rabbi Daniel Levine.In this episode, I sit down with Professor Mike Wirth (Queens University of Charlotte): artist, educator, and futurist. We start with a deceptively simple question—what is a futurist?—and end up in a wide-ranging conversation on Jewish futurism, story-space, Chassidic imagination, and what it means to “shape the future” by being fully present.Mike shares how Jewish time itself is a kind of futurist technology: Shabbat as a “time tunnel,” holidays that loop us back into ancestral memory, and the ritual language that always points forward—t...