Located in the foothills of Wyoming's spectacular wind river range, Wyoming Catholic College,

an accredited four-year Great Books Institution is built on the ancient Western tradition of the liberal arts and the freedom of the American West.

The college offers its students an immersion in the primary sources of the classical tradition,

the grandeur of the mountain wilderness, and the spiritual heritage

of the Catholic Church.

Students experience the illumination of imagination and intellect through the great books

and traditional disciplines, literature and philosophy, mathematics and theology, science

and Latin, and an outdoor program second to none.

The college celebrated an in-person graduation with its seniors last year and welcomed

its largest freshman class ever this year. Learn more about the college's unique space in the

world of American higher education at Wyoming Catholic.edu. We have with us today Mark Gerson. He

is an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He's the founder of Gerson Lairman Group, African Mission

Healthcare, and United Hatsala of Israel. His new book is The Telling, How Judaism's Essential

Book reveals the Meaning of Life. Welcome, Mark. Mark, thank you so much. It's so good to be with you

today. Okay, now, the meaning of life. This is a very somber, deep philosophical book.

There's nothing practical or concrete in this book. Is that correct?

The entire book is meant to be completely practical, totally concrete, and immediately actionable.

In fact, that's who I read the Hagada and the work from which it derives,

which is, of course, the Bible or the Torah, is that the Torah tells us what it is in Deuteronomy

107. It says, this book is for your benefit. And the Haggada is the greatest hits of the Torah.

So it, too, must be for our benefit. What does it mean to be for our benefit?

It's to help us live better lives, live happier lives, and just a more meaningful existence in the most practical everyday way.

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