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I'm intrigued by this question that I hear rolling around the world right now, even in

the most secular of corners.

What do religious people and traditions have to offer and teach as we do the work ahead

of repairing, renewing, and remaking our societies, our life together?

I'm interested in the theological and mystical depths that are so much richer and more creative

than is often imagined even when that question is raised.

I'm interested in the wisdom which at once holds and evolves in the conversation across

generations that this part of the human enterprise carries.

So today we take in a rich, rabbinic perspective on our time, that of Arial Burger.

And we also experience over our conversational shoulder some offerings of his teacher,

the late, extraordinary Ellie Vizel, who survived the Holocaust and became a figure of towering

moral wisdom amidst the 20th century's terrors.

This conversation offers vocabularies, ways of seeing, to enrich our capacities in this

daunting age.

It is an exercise in what Vizel's friend and teacher, the great Rabbi Abraham Joshua

Heschel, spoke of as the religious calling to be maladjusted with positive moral force.

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