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Die vielen Krisen sind Anzeichen der Krise der Menschen.
Pfade in Utopia (1943) – Martin Buber
Dialogisches Leben.

Finally, the basic question: What is being “culturally Jewish”? Getting at the difference between a culture and religion, how identity manifests in modernity and how it came to be this way is heady stuff, and of course, in true Jewish fashion, the answer is: it’s complicated. Thank goodness for my brilliant baby brother, Zeb, who is a professional Jewish educator like my mom, but also a largely secular Jew, like me, and his specialty in and nuanced thinking about modern Western Jewish history. Some light topics up for discussion include: the birth of nation-states, assimilationism, responses to modernity, what “identity” means, and how, lucky us, we came to be part of the "global cabal." Don't worry, there's plenty of snark too, this ain't grad school! Also, love you Mom, sorry in advance! Tons of terminology in this one, so hit the glossary below, and check previous episode notes for more. 

GLOSSARY:
Rebbe: Largely used by Hasidic Jews, a Yiddish-German term for "rabbi," also referring to a person educated in and who educates, guides or mentors others in Judaism. 

Assimilationism: The act or desire to be absorbed culturally and socially into the dominant or majority group. 

Zionism: A poitical movement founded by Theodor Herzl in the 1890s to create a Jewish homeland, based in an assimilationist philosophy and cemented by antisemitic incidents like the Dreyfus affair (the false accusation and imprisonment of a French Jewish military officer that came to symbolize Jews' supposed disloyalty).

Ghetto: Likely derived from Italian, in the early 1500s it referred to the area of Venice where the Jews were required by law to live. It is most broadly used in the Jewish to refer to the walled-in parts of cities where Jews were imprisoned under Nazi occupation, often before being sent to death camps.

Humanism: A philosophical approach with a long history, generally centered on placing importance of the human experience, and well-being of humankind over deities or states. 

Haskala: A late 18th- and early 19th-century European Jewish intellectual school of thought integrating Judaism and modern European life. 

Yiddish: Translated to mean "Jewish" in Yiddish, a German-derived dialect integrating Hebrew and parts of the local language generally considered the language of Askenazic Jewish communities in central and eastern Europe. Yiddishkeit: a Yiddish word describing a quality of "Jewishness."

Ladino: Sometimes called Judeo-Spanish, it has Castilian origins and is considered the language of Sephardic Jews, who originate in Spain and Portugal, but blends broad languages including Arabic or Greek. 

Nebbish: Yiddish for a meek, pitiful person.

Freedom Seder: https://religiondispatches.org/take-history-into-your-own-hands-why-i-wrote-the-freedom-seder-and-why-its-still-necessary/ 
Reform Movement: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/reform-judaism/
Pale of Settlement: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-pale-of-settlement 

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Begegnung vs. Benutzung

Betrachtungen und Kontemplation
Martin Buber „Ich und Du“ – das Baumbeispiel

Every person has a story to be told, and today’s episode of Adapting tells one individual’s unlikely journey to become a Jewish educator.

David Bryfman met Elyssa Hurwitz of Moishe House at a recent conference for Jewish educators when she volunteered from the audience to partake in David's interactive keynote presentation, to explore what it means, in philosopher Martin Buber's language, to strive to create I-Thou relationships. This experience had an unintended but profound impact on both Elyssa and David.

What transpires in this episode is a powerful conversation about the consequences of our interactions as educators and humans, and the changing dynamics of the Jewish educator landscape today.

This episode was produced by Dina Nusnbaum and Miranda Lapides.

The show’s executive producers are David Bryfman, Karen Cummins, and Nessa Liben. This episode was engineered and edited by Nathan J. Vaughan of NJV Media.

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ChatGPT spit out some prose on our command. Is it art? What might Heidegger say? What should our relationship be to objects and artifacts? What does Martin Buber think?  Are our relationships with our bots a good idea? Let's explore! 

Das Lied „Du“.
Martin Buber und Chassidismus: Raum der Mystik und der inneren Verbundenheit

How can we live better, healthier, happier, and wiser lives? The Life Wisdom Project explores lessons and insight from each chapter of God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher and the takeaways for everyday living. 

Meet Dr. Jonathan Weidenbaum, who teaches courses in philosophy, world religions, ethics, and bioethics at Berkeley College in NYC and St John’s University in Queens. He writes and publishes in the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of humor, among other topics.

This philosophical and spiritual conversation between friends will provide inspirational answers that may surprise you and motivate your spiritual journey! Inspired by a gentle, understanding God, Jonathan and Jerry talk about living truthfully, the power to doubt, and appreciating others’ worldviews.

What is the canary in the mine?

We revisit I Ask God About The Beliefs I Grew Up With, the third episode of God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, and the dramatic adaptation of the book:

Jerry wonders if he is living a life of truth and proposes to Abigail. God and Jerry have a deep conversation about Christianity, Jesus, Jews, and the covenant. Jerry asks God difficult questions and receives unsettling answers, and he struggles to share these answers with his Jewish wife, Abigail.

Read God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher.

Begin the dramatic adaptation of God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher

Related Episodes: [Dramatic Adaptation] 3. I Ask God About The Beliefs I Grew Up With [The Life Wisdom Project] 93. Introducing The Life Wisdom Project | 94. Tuning In To God | 99. A Lesson In Obedience

Related Content: [Video] Dr Jerry L. Martin and The Theology Without Walls Mission | God, What About Sin? | Why Did God Pick Me to Talk to?  

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Vortrag von Dr. Helga Ehrmann
im Festsaal im Erzbischöflichen Palais am 29.10.2022. Ein Vortrag der Tagung "Ich will Dich sehen, wie Du bist".

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Alles wirkliche Leben ist Begegnung.

Martin Buber.

Begegnung ist immer Veränderung.

Our identity is multifaceted, but people love the simplicity and tend to reduce people to a singular trait, which objectifies them. This reduction leads to violence, in part because it allows an "us vs them" narrative. Amartya Sen points out the ramifications in his book "Identity and Violence". 

To consider it personally, we look at Martin Buber's "I-thou" to show how most of the time we are in an "I-it" relationship to the world, and must "self-surrender" to have an "I-thou" whole relationship, and not objectify others. 

Ryder closes out with David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water" in which to be a better person we must be attuned and aware, even imaginative. Matthew Crawford counters that unfortunately, even Wallace remains stuck in his had manipulating mental models to relate to the world as a good person. The solution, says Crawford, is to take action in reality by engaging with others and the world.

https://www.letusthinkaboutit.com/step-58-identity--violence/

0:00 Intro

3:56 Part 1: reductive Identity

7:38 Part 2: I-it, I-thou

11:57 Part 3: Mind Games

17:09 Outro

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What does it mean to be (or not be) a festival? 

Andie and Stuart speak with Eamon Armstrong, host of the Life is a Festival podcast about working Burning Man, Fest300, and the Psychedelic Therapy Podcast, as well as the future (if any) of festivals in a post-pandemic world, the nature of transformative experience, and his quest to achieve metamodern manliness without all the toxic masculinity.

Eamon Armstrong is the creator of Life is a Festival, promoting a lifestyle of adventure and personal development through the lens of festival culture. He is the former Creative Director and public face of the industry-leading online festival guide and community Fest300. His belief in the transformational power of psychedelics led him to take part in a traditional Bwiti initiation in Gabon, and to become a trained Sitter with MAP’s Zendo Project.

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Topics covered and questions you’ll uncover during this episode:

• Becoming a resource and confidant to client
• How you can make customers commit to you
• Connection of belief and actions
• How to create an impactful customer experience
• Using language and storytelling to create customer beliefs
• Guiding customers from their challenges to the goal
• What makes a relationship a real “We” relationship. 
• Customer vs. Client 
• Transaction vs. Encounter
• Creating real customer loyalty
• Turning presentations to conversations
• What is a conversation that really matters? How do you have genuine dialogue?

Resources from this episode:

• Yastrow & Co. 
• Book: Ditch the Pitch
• Book: Brand Harmony
• Book: We, the Ideal Customer Relationship

Wenn wir von Krise reden fällt dazu vor allem die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise (2008) oder die Klimakrise ein. In dieser Sendung befassen wir uns wieder mit dem Denken Martin Bubers (1878-1965). Er war in Österreich geborener und nach Israel ausgewanderter Religionsphilosoph, der auch intensiv an politischen Zukunftsperspektiven für die Menschheit geforscht hat. Er diagnostizierte eine Krise des Menschen als Menschen aufgrund der immer stärker ausgeprägten Orientierung und Ausrichtung der Menschheit an der Es-Welt, der Welt des Funktionalen. Damit sah er die Ich-Du Welt, die Beziehungsdimension, verkümmern. Dem entgegen stellte er seine Vision einer „gemeinschaftlichen Gemeinschaft des Menschengeschlechts“.

Joel Hanson has schizophrenia and believes he is God. His parents reflect on living with their son and how they have learned to see mental illness, normalcy, and religion differently. Is there room in our culture to consider a schizophrenic personality as another form of human difference and diversity?