[Unedited] Amichai Lau-Lavie with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Forms of religious devotion are shifting — and there’s a new world of creativity toward crafting spiritual life while exploring the depths of tradition. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is a fun and forceful embodiment of this evolution. Born into an eminent and ancient rabbinical lineage, as a young adult he moved away from religion towards storytelling, theater, and drag. Today he leads a pop-up synagogue in New York City that takes as its tagline “everybody-friendly, artist-driven, God-optional.” It’s not merely about spiritual community but about recovering the sacred and reinventing the very meaning of “we.”

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0:00.0	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.4	Spiritual Foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding
0:10.2	principle and animating force for our lives. A powerful love that helps us live in sacred
0:15.2	relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:23.0	I'm Christa Tippett and this is On Being's Unheard Cuts. Up next, my unedited conversation
0:29.3	with performer and rabbi Amachai Laolive. There is a shorter, produced version of this wherever
0:35.6	you found this podcast. So there's just there's a lot of settling at the other end.
0:41.6	Okay, so we have a few moments. We have a few moments. Yeah.
0:45.5	Will you let them know that's open this door right? Or can I lock this?
0:49.1	Because this opens in and I'm going to be right in front of it.
0:51.7	Oh, nobody will, nobody will come in. Yeah, it's a it's a it's a sacred space until the
0:57.5	interview ends. That's right. They're all there. There's there's nobody to come in.
1:05.6	You're just seeing which angle looks best.
1:12.0	Okay, wait. It's a real person in the chair. There's Paul.
1:16.0	I'm actually going to stand here, is that all right?
1:18.8	That's fine by me.
1:21.6	All right, we're connected and we're just not ready to start.
1:24.2	Before I remember this tablecloth. Oh, yeah, possibly you.
1:28.2	From years ago, something radio wise.
1:31.2	Well, that would make sense. We do do a lot of radio here.
1:35.4	I'm not sure exactly what it was. We can try to figure that out later.
1:39.0	We're probably ready to talk with you. So, okay.
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