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The Daily Stoic

Rabbi Mordecai Finley on the Value of Rationality

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

Education, Ryan Holiday, Stoic Philosophy, 694393, Philosophy, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Stoic, Business, Stoicism

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

On today’s podcast Ryan talks to Rabbi Mordecai Finley about what he learned from his encounter with an active shooter at the LAX airport in 1978, what our obligation to the common good looks like in the modern world, the Stoic’s obligation to remaining rational and responsible within society, and more. 

Rabbi Mordecai Finley is the rabbi and co-CEO of Ohr HaTorah Synagogue. He co-founded the synagogue with his wife Meirav Finley in 1993. Rabbi Finley integrates into his counseling practice insights from many schools and traditions, most notably:  Philosophy, Stoic and Neo-Platonism) Jung and neo-Jungians (especially James Hillman) plus a range of modern psychological schools of thought, especially Roberto Assagiolli, William Glasser, Albert Ellis and Byron Katie. He also has background in object relations theorists as well as existential and humanist psychology. 

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday

0:15.3

We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics

0:19.2

Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice

0:24.1

Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics

0:30.5

We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives

0:40.3

And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things

0:46.9

Have slowed down be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring

1:01.4

Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast

1:07.7

Anytime Stephen Pressfield or ritual gives me a thumbs up on a person. I'm like this must be a legit

1:14.9

Dude or woman or whatever anytime they vouch for someone I take that very seriously because I am a big fan of them

1:22.0

So when both rich and

1:24.3

Stephen recommended Rabbi Mordeky finley

1:26.9

I was like I got to check this guy out. I watched his amazing episode on

1:32.6

Rituals podcast which is worth listening to and

1:36.6

We had an awesome interview. This is a fascinating dude

1:39.9

Court sort of a warrior monk if you will he's a rabbi. He was also a marine

1:46.7

he

1:48.2

Drops in the middle of our interview that he happened to have

1:51.7

stopped a mass shooting at LAX many years ago

1:55.2

he is

1:57.7

He received his doctorate in religion and social ethics from the University of California

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