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Hello everyone, Chris Anderson here. Welcome to a new episode of this turned on its head

season of the Ted interview. It's hard to think about anything much at the moment, other

than the coronavirus and all its implications. So for the next few weeks, Ted's team of

the investigators and I have tossed aside our carefully laid plans in order to focus on this

because there's so many aspects of it. It's not just the virus itself and where it's

heading and how to think about it. We are discovering so much about ourselves and our loved ones

and our colleagues and society right now. So it's kind of an amazing thing to think about.

And that's what the series is all about. We sort out the wisest people we know and we need

their wisdom now more than ever, honestly. Our guest today is Rabbi Jonathan Sachs, who

speaks about how we can stay unified when it seems so many things threaten to isolate and divide us.

If you, by the way, want to hear future episodes live, you can do that either by coming to Ted.com

and just following the link at the top of the page or coming to Ted's Facebook page, Facebook.com slash Ted,

we'll be streaming these Monday through Thursday from noon until 1 p.m. U.S. Eastern time.

Or just stick with this podcast where they will be posted as soon afterwards as we can.

And so for the sake of time in us, these interviews haven't been edited or fact checked

that just as they were recorded. Now then, our host today is Helen Waters. She's the

spirit head curator at Ted. She's the shepherd of a brilliant team of curators who you'll meet

this season. Now, I promised not to get out of her hair quickly. So over to Helen.

Thank you so much for getting out of my hair Chris. I've been waiting for that moment for some time.

Bella, at last. So it gives me great pleasure to welcome our guest today. He is a spiritual leader.

He is the former chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew congregations of the Commonwealth.

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