Rabbi Dr. Goshen Gachstein is a teacher, scholar, and spiritual bridge builder.

He's the founder of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, where for decades he's been devoted

to building friendship, trust, and shared understanding across religious traditions. His work carries a rare combination of intellectual depth and spiritual

openness that is rooted in Judaism, yet expansive in its belief that God's presence is greater

than any one path. He's joining us today, share his newest book in God's presence, a theological

reintroduction to Judaism,

which invites readers into a richer, more spiritually alive understanding of Judaism,

one that calls us back to spirituality at a time and so many people feel disconnected or spiritually numb.

I'm really looking forward to this conversation with Dr. Goshen, Badstein.

Welcome to spiritually hungry. We're so happy to welcome you, Dr. Alone, Goshen, Gatstein.

We're thrilled to have you. We have a lot we want to discuss with you. First, in your own words,

tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do. What I do is what I've

done. Orthodox rabbi, academic, scholar, rabbinic thought. Over the years, I grew into a scholar of

religions and interreligious relations while maintaining my engagement in Jewish thought,

especially in the field called nowadays Theology of Religions, how one religion views another.

I've also cultivated a whole world of interfaith personal relationships that's also been professional.

It's found expression in an organization.

I found it now 30 years ago. Yeah, exactly 30 years ago.

It's called the Elijah Interfaith Institute.

It started in Jerusalem as a consortium of 13 Jewish, Christian and Muslims, academic institutions.

It grew into a world-class board of world religious leaders,-level scholars community outreach high-profile

media projects and now with a first of its kind interfaith museum called the global house of

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