Rabbi Steve Leder | How to Live What Matters
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
With everything going on in the world recently, we've likely all thought to ourselves at some point, "Is humanity lost?" You are not alone if the news makes you feel like everything is hopeless, and it's fair to wonder if collective and individual hope in empathy, compassion, and humanity will ever be restored.
As we move forward past the darkest days of the COVID-19 outbreak, many people are still searching for hope, inspiration, and answers to some big questions like: How do you regain access to empathy? Or what truly matters in life in the end?
And I can't think of a better person to explore these questions with than my guest today, Rabbi Steve Leder.
He is a graduate of Northwestern University and was ordained at Hebrew Union College, and he currently serves as the Senior Rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. He's also a writer and the author of several critically acclaimed books, including his best-seller, More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us, and his latest book, For You When I'm Gone: 12 Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story.
His compassionate voice and words of wisdom have earned Rabbi Leder recognition as one of Newsweek Magazine's ten most influential rabbis in America — twice. In this revealing conversation, we explore his views on humanity, death, religion, and what makes a good life well-lived.
Rabbi Leder shares his interesting thoughts on why people leave the church, what he believes to be the true single source of evil, and how we can all get back to living in alignment with our values and also how to create a powerful curation of beliefs and stories to share with others he calls your ethical will. There are so many good nuggets to take away from this conversation, so I hope you're in a position to jot down Rabbi Leder's words of wisdom today.
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| 0:00.0 | Am I living in alignment with all these things I say I believe in and that I say are important? |
| 0:07.1 | Are my professed values and my lived values the same? |
| 0:13.5 | So with everything going on in the world recently, we have likely all thought to ourselves at some point |
| 0:19.4 | is humanity just lost. You're not alone if the news makes you feel everything is a bit hopeless and |
| 0:25.7 | it's fair to wonder if collective and individual hope and empathy, compassion and humanity will |
| 0:31.2 | ever be restored. And as we move forward past the darkest days of COVID-19, many people are still |
| 0:37.8 | searching for that hope and inspiration and answers to some big questions like how do you gain |
| 0:43.1 | access to empathy or what truly matters in life in the end? And I can't think of a better person |
| 0:49.2 | to explore these questions with than my guest today, Rabbi Steve later. He's a graduate of |
| 0:54.7 | Northwestern University was ordained at Hebrew Union College and currently serves as the senior |
| 1:00.0 | Rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. He's also a writer and the author of several |
| 1:06.1 | critically acclaimed books including his bestseller, More Beautiful Than Before, How Suffering |
| 1:11.6 | Transforms Us, and his latest book for you when I'm gone. 12 essential questions to tell a life |
| 1:18.6 | story. And his compassionate voice and words of wisdom have earned Rabbi later recognition as one |
| 1:24.4 | of Newsweek Magazine's ten must influential rabbis in America twice by the way. In this revealing |
| 1:30.0 | conversation, we explore his views on humanity, on death, on religion, and what makes a good life |
| 1:36.4 | well lived. The Revitator shares his interesting thoughts on why people leave church and really |
| 1:42.0 | all forms of traditional faith these days. What he believes to be the true single source of evil and |
| 1:47.2 | how we can all get back to living in alignment with our values and also how to create a powerful |
| 1:53.2 | curation of beliefs and stories to share with others he calls an ethical will. There are so many good |
| 2:00.0 | nuggets to take away from this conversation, so I hope you're in a position to jot down Rabbi |
| 2:04.3 | later's words of wisdom today. So excited to share this conversation with you. I'm Jonathan Fields |
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