It’s Okay to Question Everything (with Rabbi Beau Shapiro)
The World's First Podcast with Erin & Sara Foster
Dear Media | Wishbone Production
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Rabbi Shapiro is a rabbi at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. He joins Erin and Sara (and Simon) to discuss the process of converting to Judaism and the course he leads. They get into the misconceptions about converting, why it’s okay to ask questions and not have all the answers, and more.
Executive Producers: Erin Foster, Sara Foster, and Allison Bresnick
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Otto. Welcome to Ellen says, put your cost. |
| 0:05.0 | Okay. So today we have... |
| 0:14.0 | Raby Shapiro. Wow. I mean, we got... |
| 0:18.0 | We got a lot of questions about Raby Shapiro, but we'll get into that. |
| 0:22.0 | Raby Shapiro, um, he ran the conversion course that I took when I converted to Judaism |
| 0:29.0 | and he also married me and Simon. Yeah. |
| 0:32.0 | And so I've pulled Simon in for the first few minutes of this. |
| 0:37.0 | For the male person. I'm here. |
| 0:40.0 | Simon, Simon, present. |
| 0:42.0 | A lot of people wanted to understand sort of why I converted to Judaism. |
| 0:47.0 | To Judaism. To Judaism. |
| 0:48.0 | Like what that meant for me and Simon's relationship. |
| 0:52.0 | And if that was a deal breaker or a mandatory, |
| 0:56.0 | I think that some people have some questions about me, you know, |
| 1:01.0 | there's some people who feel like it's a bit of an anti-feminist stance that I converted to the religion of my husband to make him happy. |
| 1:08.0 | So I want to explain that. |
| 1:10.0 | For me personally, like Sarah, I mean, Sarah and I have different perspectives on how religious our upbringing was. |
| 1:18.0 | So when I met Simon, I had no affiliation with religion and I was not interested in religion. |
| 1:25.0 | But Simon was Jewish and it was important to him to marry. |
| 1:30.0 | Okay, bullshit belt. We have a bullshit belt. |
| 1:33.0 | We have a bullshit belt. |
| 1:34.0 | I would just like to say you, you weirdly way before Simon were very curious about Judaism |
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