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WTF, God?!

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Judaism, Religion & Spirituality

5.0531 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We hear from a listener who spent a lifetime looking for love, hoping to become a parent. Now, single, childless and in his 70s he is asking WTF, God!?

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0:00.0

Hey, chutzkwad. We know you love thoughtful Jewish conversation. So there's another podcast we think you should check out. It's called Being Jewish with Jonah Platt.

0:09.6

Jonah has the kind of conversations that don't feel reactive or hysterical or trapped in hot takes. He makes space for complexity instead of trying to win an argument.

0:19.1

Jonah talks to artist, public figures, thinkers, Jewish and not, including Seinfeld's

0:24.3

Jason Alexander, former hostage Eli Shurabi, comedian Modi Rosenfeld, CNN's Jake Tapper, and Cindy

0:32.1

Crawford.

0:33.0

The podcast is about the beautiful and complicated parts of Jewish life.

0:37.2

So if you want something smart, expansive, and grounded, check out Being Jewish with Jonah Platt on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:46.8

Or visit being Jewishpodcast.com.

1:11.2

Hi, everyone, and welcome back to chutzpah. Real life lived better, where each week we apply Jewish tradition and a teeny bit of righteous indignation as we talk about something that is live in our lives. I'm Rabbi Shiris Stutman.

1:12.5

And I'm Hannah Rosen.

1:16.2

Okay, Hannah, here's my question for you this week.

1:19.5

Like, are you someone when something doesn't go your way?

1:24.7

Are you someone that curses God that, like, turns to God with open arms?

1:27.2

And if so, what does the conversation look like?

1:32.8

The conversation looks like this. If such a conversation happened, it would look like this.

1:38.2

I would look in the sky and I would be like, me, like, that's the conversation.

1:43.2

Wait, wait, wait. What would the mat be? Would it be like, mad meaning like, I don't even know if there is a god or would it be met like, all right, well, you did this for a reason. I don't understand it. Like, what is that? Yes, it's the second. I mean, I had a therapist tell me, I don't think I've ever said this out loud, but a therapist said to me once, out of the blue, like we weren't talking about this and she said, apropos of some totally other, you know, train I was going down,

2:03.8

um, I bet you

2:05.5

weren't surprised when 9-11 happened.

2:08.0

And it was such a weird thing to say.

2:10.8

It was such a weird thing to say.

2:12.3

And I was like, you know what?

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