'Finding a Moral Compass in Challenging Times' - David Brooks & Rabbi Sacks in conversation

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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On 21st March 2017, prominent New York Times columnist David Brooks and Rabbi Sacks held a public conversation at 92nd St Y in New York entitled ‘Finding a Moral Compass in Challenging Times’. The conversation was not just intellectually stimulating but an amusing one as well. This event was co-presented with The Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University and endowed by Francine and Abdullah Simon z”l.

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0:00.0	Welcome, Rabbi Lord Professor.
0:05.0	I'm sort of trying to forget what to call you.
0:09.0	I think Rabbi, your lordship, I think I'm going to go.
0:13.0	I tell you, I gave up on Lord in America years ago, because whenever we show them our passport at immigration,
0:21.6	the guy on the desk always says,
0:24.6	good to see you, Mr. Lord.
0:26.6	So I kind of gave up on that, and I think we're between friends.
0:33.6	Okay, David.
0:34.6	Well, I'll call you, rabbi, you call me your lordship.
0:36.6	Okay. So we're'll call you, Rabbi, you call me your lordship. Okay.
0:41.1	So we're supposed to have a conversation.
0:45.7	And I guess in the spirit of that, my first question, how's it going?
0:50.8	Now, I'll try to start with something a little more deep.
0:52.4	We're going to talk about all things.
0:54.6	Ryan Holdenabre wrote a great book called Man, I think it's human nature.
0:58.3	Moral Man, which one?
1:00.0	Well, he wrote one called something like
1:01.8	human nature in all its aspects, which I like,
1:04.2	because it covered a lot of ground.
1:06.1	And we're going to cover a lot of ground.
1:07.8	And I want to start with a quotation from your last book, which is on sale, a sentence
1:12.7	which I quoted in a column on the book, which is we're in an age where we have a maximum
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