God selected one particular people and spent several centuries hammering into their heads the sort of God he was,

that there was only one of him and that he cared about right conduct.

Those people were the Jews, and the Old Testament gives an account of the hammering process.

This is Pints with Jack, Season 5, Episode 36, Ecumenism Month, Jewish Lewis. After Hours

with Dr. Yakoff Weinstein. Good morning, everyone. Pints with Jack is your weekly

CS Lewis podcast where three friends, Andrew, David and Matt

break down and discuss the works of C.S. Lewis. This season, we've been talking about love,

and we worked our way through Lewis's book, The Four Loves. But we're now in ecumenism month,

speaking to people who love C.S. Lewis from a diverse range of religious backgrounds,

Calvinism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Mormonism,

and today we wrap things up with Judaism. And today I'm speaking with Dr. Yakov Weinstein.

Dr. Weinstein is a physicist for the MITA Quantum Information Science Group and lives in East Brunswick,

New Jersey, and he blogs at Torah from Narnia. Dr. Weinstein, welcome to Pines for Jack.

Thanks so much, David. It's great to be here. Now, I can't actually quite remember how I came

across it, but I first discovered you on the tradition podcast where you were talking about

C.S. Lewis, and as you were wrapping up that interview, you mentioned your blog, Torah from Narnia,

and so I immediately touched in and spent several hours reading your thoughts about Lewis and

Narnia from a Jewish perspective. And I thought this would be a really great way to wrap up

this series that we're doing at the moment. Well, first of all, thank you so much for finding me,

David. I'm not quite

sure how you did it either. I'm really impressed that you did, but I think it is especially

appropriate, as you were reading The Four Loves this season, and that's what the podcast in my

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