UFYB 277: Three Ways Judaism Has Shaped My Work in the World
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
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🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
I am Jewish, but I don’t consider myself to be particularly religious or spiritual. I know that may seem strange or like there’s a disconnect there, but Judaism is more than just a religion. So it doesn’t fit into the westernized ideal of what a religion is or should look like. This week on the podcast I share three ways Judaism has shaped my work in the world and I take a look at how the things that you learn as part of being in a religious community or any other kind of community impact how you think about the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, |
| 0:14.0 | and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your |
| 0:19.3 | host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile. |
| 0:26.3 | Hello, my chickens. How are you? I am very cold. We had our first little bit of snow last night, |
| 0:37.4 | which felt very winter magic for like 23 seconds. So I'm open for a little more snow as long as, |
| 0:45.6 | you know, just conveniently it doesn't interfere with any of my plans. That's the kind of snow I want. |
| 0:50.0 | So this past weekend, I had a little bit of a blast from the past, tripped at the past. I went down to |
| 1:00.7 | DC, well, really technically booey Maryland, to attend the bar mitzvah of the sun, the first |
| 1:10.8 | sun of my childhood best friend. So that's just like blowing my mind right there. But it was a really |
| 1:18.5 | like actually quite a beautiful experience. I think, you know, as with any kind of religious observance |
| 1:26.1 | or ritual, sometimes you regard those of where you are on the kind of faith spectrum or spirituality |
| 1:33.6 | spectrum. Sometimes you participate in a ritual and it feels like just going through the motions. |
| 1:39.2 | And then sometimes it feels really powerful and really meaningful. And I am not somebody who |
| 1:45.2 | really identifies as being particularly certainly not religious or particularly spiritual. But I do |
| 1:51.9 | identify strongly with being Jewish and part of that kind of what's that seems like a disconnect |
| 1:57.8 | to some people. But that's partly because people are using a very kind of Western Christian notion |
| 2:03.2 | of religion. Judaism is not just a religion. It's more like a, it's like an ethno tribal religion. |
| 2:11.5 | It is from before these Western concepts of religion. I think the way that the Western |
| 2:18.1 | concepts of religion work and especially these days are that it's sort of like religion is this |
| 2:22.9 | thing that is like separate from your nationality and separate from your political structure and |
| 2:28.6 | separate from your demographic background, right or separate from your identity, |
| 2:34.0 | group or community potentially. And that's true for some people for sure. And obviously, believe |
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