How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift (with Rabbi Steve Leder)
The World's First Podcast with Erin & Sara Foster
Dear Media | Wishbone Production
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Rabbi Steve Leder is the Senior Rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple and the author of "The Beauty of What Remains." He joins Erin and Sara for a conversation about work/life balance, how death teaches us to live more meaningful lives, parenting, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Otto. Welcome to Ellen Sarah's Budcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I have to tell you, I was a little starstruck meeting this guest. No, he's iconic here. People |
| 0:19.3 | you say, Rabbi Stephen Leiter and people just like, ah, he's a good people rock star. He's |
| 0:25.1 | very beloved. And I am not Jewish, but there were so many takeaways for me. For Rabbi |
| 0:33.7 | Leiter, when I met Rabbi Leiter, when I went to one of his sermons and I was deciding if I wanted |
| 0:38.3 | to convert to be Jewish. When I watched him speak, it really transformed for me the way I saw |
| 0:44.9 | religion because the way he spoke didn't feel religious. It was like one person talking to |
| 0:51.3 | another about life. And that made me feel like I wanted to be Jewish. And that's what this episode |
| 0:57.4 | is not a religious episode at all. This episode really just ended up being a conversation about so much |
| 1:03.5 | more than even his book that he wrote, which we do get into his book. And his book is just such a |
| 1:07.6 | beautiful read. But you know what, let's wrap this up. People listen to the episodes. You love to |
| 1:12.5 | talk about the episode that people are about to listen to. I do, but I just want people to know that |
| 1:17.7 | we talked about the meaning of life. We talked about relationships. We talked about how it's okay |
| 1:22.8 | not to have it all. We talked about realism in a minute when they hear it. Yes, but I'm just |
| 1:28.2 | want to prepare our audience, Aaron. Some people might be like, oh, Rabbi, I don't know if that really |
| 1:33.0 | resonated with me. I'm not Jewish or I'm not religious or that's all I'm trying to do. I'm trying |
| 1:37.2 | to say this, this was truly a conversation about being a good human being, about being a human |
| 1:44.3 | being who feels like you don't hit the pause button. Hit the play button. Hit the play button. |
| 1:51.4 | That's what I'm saying. Hit the play button, everyone. This was one of my favorite conversations. |
| 1:55.2 | I have to say out of all of our episodes, well, you're welcome to come convert with me. I just said it. |
| 2:01.5 | All right. Here is the legend, Rabbi Stephen Lear. |
| 2:05.2 | Beginning the conversation with Rabbi Lear, who we are very excited to have here. He is the, |
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