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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

The Great Sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.634.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2017

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

Lecture 12 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series In this, the final lecture of the Summer 2017 12-part series The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories, we encounter, first, Hagar's banishment to the desert with Ishmael and then the demand made by God to Abraham for the sacrifice of Isaac. To sacrifice now is to gain later: perhaps the greatest of human discoveries. What, then, should best be sacrificed? And what might be the greatest gain?

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson podcast.

0:05.8

You can support these podcasts by donating to Dr. Peterson's Patreon, the link to which

0:10.3

can be found in the description.

0:12.8

Dr. Peterson's self-development programs, self-authoring, can be found at selfauthoring.com.

0:42.8

Thank you.

0:54.2

Thank you.

0:56.2

So I've been thinking about things that I'm happy about and what I'm most happy about so

1:01.2

far is that I haven't spilled my bubbly water into my computer so far while I've been doing

1:06.8

these lectures.

1:07.8

If that's always, I'll probably do it tonight now that I'm bragging about having avoided

1:11.3

it.

1:12.3

So thank you all for coming.

1:15.1

This is the last lecture in this 12-part series.

1:17.2

I did mention that I have made arrangements with the theater at least to do this once a

1:22.2

month for the next four months and we'll see, we'll play it by ear past then.

1:25.6

I want to continue and I'll find another venue and perhaps to do it every two weeks,

1:29.4

but certainly once a month and maybe I can even get deeper into the material if it's

1:33.3

only once a month.

1:34.3

So that would be, then we'll really slow down to a snail's crawl.

1:39.4

So this is a tough one tonight, you know, it's something, a story that everyone with

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any sense should approach with a substantial degree of trepidation.

1:47.2

I've been working on my book this week on Chapter 7, which is called Do What Is Meaningful,

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