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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Noa Kushner - Social Justice, Mitzvah, and God Then and Now: The writing of R. Arnold Jacob Wolf zβl
Description: Rabbi Noa Kushner, Founding Rabbi at The Kitchen (www.thekitchensf.org/), presents her Valley Beit Midrash discussion "Social Justice, Mitzvah, and God Then and Now: The writing of R. Arnold Jacob Wolf zβl" before an audience at Temple Kol Ami (www.templekolami.org/) in Phoenix, AZ.
ABOUT THIS LECTURE: βWhat we cannot believe is that God is a revolutionary. So long as we act by our lights we shall act poorly, because our insights are really self-interest and our convictions mere rationalizations.β (R. Arnold Jacob Wolf, βThe Negro Revolution and Jewish Theology,β Unfinished Rabbi, p. 87). This session will explore the seriou...