Daniel Hagler and Aryeh Englander: Can Jews Who Stay Talk With Jews Who Left? [OTD 2/4]

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[Music] Hi friends and welcome to the 1840 podcast where each month we explore different topic balancing modern sensibilities with traditional sensitivities to give you new approaches to timeless Jewish ideas. I'm your host, David Bashkin, and this month we're exploring why some leave religion. This was a call from a father who was reaching out to me in the hopes that I could answer the question, "How do we know Judaism is true? How do we know that this is real?" It was a foundational question that most Jews honestly don't ask and for good reason. But certainly Jews who have been given a Jewish education generally take for granted the world that they have been raised in. We embrace the circumstances of our own lives. Very rarely do people kind of start life with a tableau raza like a blank slate. That's a Latin term like a blank slate. That's a Latin term as a blank slate trying to justify all their views trying to understand well what kind of country should I live in? Should I live in a capitalist society? Should I live in a more socialist society? Should I live in the mountain tops, in the forests? What job should I get? You know, and you list every single job possible. No, we usually approach our lives and we take for granted. We have what's called bounded rationality. We are not trying to figure out everything in our lives from a blank slate. It is, in my opinion, impossible

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1. 0:00[Music] Hi friends and welcome to the 1840 podcast where each month we explore different topic…
2. 6:11religion ultimately is the examination of self. It's the examination of our deepest desire, our desire…
3. 12:23tremendous cost to him and his family something that he still speaks about and openly grapples…
4. 18:28his own mental health and his own experience. And his experience is not everyone else's. and…
5. 24:40want to bear on the world. And from those approaches, you uh don't exceed what the…
6. 30:48completely from its consequences. What do you mean by that? Meaning that so Hillary Putin goes…
7. 36:53to be that extreme. If there's a significant benefit to the belief, I'm willing to give…
8. 43:05understand how one another arrived at the conclusion. That's why it's so strange and it's so…
9. 49:13real. It's just they're they're real. I think that's only the case if the entire world…
10. 55:23Shabas. Their parents are not going to disown them in our community. In our community, in…

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