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Unorthodox Unedited: 2 Jews, Infinite opinions

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

We’re taking this week off, but we wanted to bring you an unedited look into a conversation Mark was desperate to set up between two of his friends, Liel Leibovitz and Jay Michaelson.  These are two Jews who are very in sync in some ways, but extremely different in others.  Come explore with them as they talk about some of the most important issues we’re all facing.

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0:00.0

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0:06.2

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0:11.3

from Jewish history, pop culture, holidays, and of course food,

0:14.9

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0:17.5

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0:22.4

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0:24.0

and use the code unorthodox at check out.

0:26.5

That's Artisan Books.com, discount code,

0:29.0

unorthodox, all caps. really an episode of unorthodox.

0:42.9

This week I'm playing for you a conversation that was recorded a few months ago

0:46.8

between two of my favorite people in the whole world.

0:50.5

One is Lialibovitz, whom you know well, my co-host, my fellow host on Unorthodox, and the author of numerous books, including a great book about Leonard Cohen, the songwriter and singer, and a forthcoming book about Stan Lee, the comic book artist.

1:02.0

Leal is one of those guys who can do it all.

1:04.0

Another guy who can do it all, another favorite person of mine,

1:07.0

is Jay Michelson, who is a rabbi and Jewish religious spiritual teacher.

1:11.0

His new book is called Enlightenment by Trial and

1:13.4

error. It has the egregiously long subtitle, 10 years on the slippery slopes of

1:17.5

Jewish spirituality, postmodern Buddhism, and other spiritual heresies. He earns his

1:22.2

honest paycheck working at the company 10% happier which makes a

1:25.6

leading meditation app but anyway that's not really what matters that's not

1:29.2

what matters what matters here is they are two people who had never met each other have radically

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