Summary
In this teaser episode, we give you a taste of what’s to come in Chutzpod!
Rabbi Shira and Joshua discuss the Jewish approach to liminality — moving forward from the past, actually being present in the present, and turning gratefully to the future. We look at the Shehechiyanu blessing, which gives thanks to the Source of All for giving us life, sustaining us, and bringing us to new moments. Even the tough ones.
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| 0:00.0 | Shalom, Joshua. Shalom, Rabbi Shura. It's great to see you. It's great to see you as well. I'm really excited because we are here to do a little bit of a teaser for our new podcast, which is called chutzpahd, ancient texts for modern times. |
| 0:29.4 | That's right. You all are the very first listeners to our new project, chutzpod. It's the podcast named after the Yiddish word chutzpah, meaning audacity, nerve, boldness, |
| 0:40.3 | impudence even. Yeah, together we're going to explore Torah and other ancient and more recent texts |
| 0:46.2 | as we use our own chutzpah to look at modern life through a fresh Jewish lens. And yes, we invoked |
| 0:52.6 | the T word Torah, but please do not be nervous. |
| 0:56.5 | Do not switch off your set. |
| 0:58.0 | This is no Sunday school. |
| 0:59.0 | Here on this podcast, we're on a search for relevance and immediacy. |
| 1:04.4 | Basically, how can these words from the past enrich us today right now? |
| 1:08.2 | Our aim is to reach out to Jews of all stripes and to people who just consider |
| 1:12.7 | themselves to be chai curious. Chirious. So is this going to be about Judaism or marijuana? |
| 1:19.3 | No, no, no. That's high curious. There also, of course, is chai curious, which I believe is a Starbucks |
| 1:25.8 | promotional campaign. But um, bum, amazing. |
| 1:29.1 | Okay, so look, here's what we want to try to do, I think. Tell me if I got it. We want to try |
| 1:34.4 | to address some of the toughest questions of our day. Why are we here? Why is this happening? |
| 1:40.2 | I mean, choose whatever the this is. We've all got a this. We've all got a this. Personally, |
| 1:45.7 | or like in the world, how can I make a difference? We all have these questions and we want to just |
| 1:49.8 | address these questions through the lens of Jewish text, ancient text, contemporary text. |
| 1:55.6 | This is a podcast we hope, we aspire for humans who want to lead a meaningful life. For anyone who's ever been out on a |
| 2:02.3 | run on a Saturday morning, you know, or like sitting on the couch or like in a bar with your |
| 2:06.7 | friends and you're thinking to yourself, all right, this is it. I got this one time around. |
| 2:11.9 | What do I want to do? How do I want to learn? How do I want to grow? Right on. These are all |
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