Ruth Wisse
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Ruth Wisse shares her fascinating life story which she's compiled in her new book, "Free As A Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation."
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| 0:00.0 | The following program is pre-recorded. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Eric Mettaxas show with your host, Eric Mettaxas. |
| 0:17.9 | Hey there, folks. Welcome to the Eric Metaxe show. I'll be playing the role of Eric Mataxis, |
| 0:22.4 | if you don't mind. If you do mind, unfortunately, I'll still be playing the role of Eric Mataxis. And there's |
| 0:27.0 | nothing that you can do. Nothing. Do you understand nothing? I want to remind you, the world is going |
| 0:32.6 | insane. Wherever you look, you can see it. Bonhoeffer talked about this in the middle of World War |
| 0:38.9 | II. Things seemed to be going insane. Evil seemed to be winning. And what he said was it's a good |
| 0:46.9 | thing. It's a clarifying moment because this is the way things always are. It's just that certain times |
| 0:51.8 | we get clarification that apart from God, we're in big |
| 0:56.2 | trouble. Things aren't wonderful in this veil of tears. We need to focus on what is true in the |
| 1:03.5 | midst of the madness, and we need to focus on what can I do today. And I thought, as you know this |
| 1:10.8 | month, we're doing a fundraiser with Food for the |
| 1:14.2 | Poor, one of those great organizations that we partner with because we have vetted them. |
| 1:19.8 | They do amazing work. They stretch American dollars so far that it's astonishing. |
| 1:25.4 | And right now, we are going to have on, actually, Paul Jacobs is on right now. |
| 1:31.6 | He's with media relations with Food for the Poor. Paul, welcome. Great to be here with the |
| 1:38.0 | Eric. Thank you. We are, I mean, I don't know if you know this or not, Paul, but we are way behind, |
| 1:44.9 | comparatively speaking, with our fundraiser. So I thought, I don't know if you know this or not, Paul, but we are way behind, comparatively speaking with our fundraiser. |
| 1:47.4 | So I thought we want to get you on to help encourage people. |
| 1:50.8 | I know that there's some big givers out there who normally give. |
| 1:55.3 | Maybe they didn't give this time. |
| 1:56.5 | I want to encourage people. |
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