Rabbi Steve Leder - Dreaming With the End in Mind
Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends
Bob Goff
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Steve Leder is the senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. After receiving his degree in writing and graduating cum laude from Northwestern University, and spending time studying at Trinity College, Oxford University, Leder received a master's degree in Hebrew letters in 1986 and rabbinical ordination in 1987 from Hebrew Union College. He is the author of the recently published book: The Beauty of What Remains.
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Producer : Tatave Abeshyan
Producer & Co-host : Scott Schimmel
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Dream Big Podcast with Bob Gaffin. |
| 0:12.6 | Friends, I am your host Scotchable, and I'm here to introduce you to another episode. |
| 0:16.7 | Rabbi Steve Leder is on this show this week. |
| 0:20.8 | You know, the idea of living our lives, focus on our dreams, pursuing our ambitions. |
| 0:27.0 | That's the whole idea behind this podcast. |
| 0:30.1 | That's one of the primary messages that Bob has, but how do we do that in such a way |
| 0:34.4 | where we can have confidence that the dreams we're pursuing are the right dreams. |
| 0:38.9 | I look back, let's say, into my early 20s and think about the big ambitions that I had. |
| 0:44.8 | And now I don't laugh at them, but if I were to have a conversation with myself 15, |
| 0:50.5 | 20 years later, I would say, hey, buddy, let's get some perspective. |
| 0:55.7 | One perspective is really a big part of what this conversation is going to be about |
| 1:00.0 | between Bob and Rabbi Steve. |
| 1:02.3 | And perspective to help us get clear about what's really most important. |
| 1:08.1 | When all is said and done, what are the most important pursuits of our life? |
| 1:13.2 | There's another reason we want to introduce Rabbi Steve to use wrote in a book recently |
| 1:17.4 | called The Beauty of What Remains, How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift. |
| 1:22.1 | You're going to hear in this episode actually quite a lot of discussion around |
| 1:26.2 | facing death and mortality, and with 500,000 plus deaths from COVID over the last 12 months, |
| 1:34.1 | we also think it's helpful to bring on a very, very wise voice for so many of us to learn how |
| 1:41.2 | to walk through grief, not just for ourselves, but for the people around us. |
| 1:47.1 | And so he is a very optimistic viewpoint and perspective on grief and facing death |
| 1:53.5 | that we think you're going to truly appreciate. So stay tuned. |
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