Unorthodox podcast interview with Rabbi Sacks (3rd September 2020)

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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

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🗓️ 6 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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With thanks to our friends at the Unorthodox podcast produced by Tablet Magazine, here is Rabbi Sacks' interview from last week show. This interview was first released on Thursday 3rd September 2020. Description from Unorthodox: "Our Jewish guest is Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, who returns to the show to talk about his latest book, Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times. Listen for Rabbi Sacks' advice for how we can build a more moral society, plus why he thinks the themes of the High Holidays have never been more relevant, and his take on the Queen's corgis." To listen to the Unorthodox episode in full, please click here: https://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/unorthodox/episode-241-rabbi-lord-jonathan-sacks-holly-huffnagle-anti-semitism. To purchase a copy of 'Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times' please click here: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/jonathan-sacks/morality/9781541675315/.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Our next guest is Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.
0:19.0	He served for 22 years as chief rabbi of the United Hebrew
0:22.1	Congregations of the Commonwealth and is a renowned religious leader, philosopher, and award-winning
0:27.0	author. His most recent book is morality, restoring the common good in divided times. Welcome
0:33.1	Rabbi Lord.
0:34.1	Stephen, it's just great, just great to be with you. What does your wife call you, Rabbi or Lord? Stephanie, it's just great to be with you.
0:38.7	What does your wife call you, rabbi or Lord?
0:40.8	A Lord, basically.
0:44.1	During lockdown, we celebrated our golden wedding.
0:47.4	I have to say that I wouldn't have been a rabbi or a lord without Elaine.
0:52.1	That is on the record.
0:53.4	We have that on tape.
0:54.6	That is perfect.
0:55.5	And you make it clear in the book.
0:56.8	So let's jump right into the book.
0:58.9	You spend about 250 pages detailing very movingly and eloquently.
1:05.0	So much of this broken about our contemporary world from social media that atomize us and take us from a mindset
1:11.9	of we to a mindset of I, to a culture of outsourcing that robs people of basic income,
1:20.0	to sort of politics of contempt and division.
1:24.0	It's a sort of really profound and profoundly depressing catalog of so many ills, and yet you end the book, sort of insisting that there's a rosy future ahead and that it depends on our ability to rally around this notion of morality.
1:39.2	So explain to us kindly.
1:41.1	Give us reason to be hopeful.
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