2022-06-02
47 分钟Am I living in alignment with all these things I say I believe in and that I say are important?
Are my professed values and my lived values the same?
So with everything going on in the world recently, we have likely all thought to ourselves at some point, is humanity just lost?
You're not alone if the news makes you feel everything is a bit hopeless.
And it's fair to wonder if collective and individual hope and empathy, compassion and humanity will ever be restored.
And as we move forward past the darkest days of Covid-19 many people are still searching for that hope and inspiration and answers to some big questions like how do you gain access to empathy or what truly matters in life in the end?
And I can't think of a better person to explore these questions with than my guest today, Rabbi Steve Lader.
He's a graduate of Northwestern University, was ordained at Hebrew Union College, and currently serves as the senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles.
He's also a writer and the author of several critically acclaimed books, including his bestseller more beautiful than before, how suffering transforms us, and his latest book, for you, when I'm twelve, essential questions to tell a life story and his compassionate voice and words of wisdom have earned Rabbi Leder recognition as as one of Newsweek magazines ten most influential rabbis in America.
Twice, by the way.
In this revealing conversation, we explore his views on humanity, on death, on religion, and what makes a good life well lived.
The rabbi later shares his interesting thoughts on why people leave church and really all forms of traditional faith these days, what he believes to be the true single source of evil, and how we can all get back to living in alignment with our values, and also how to create a powerful curation of beliefs and stories to share with others he calls an ethical will.
There are so many good nuggets to take away from this conversation, so I hope you're in a position to jot down Rabbi Leder's words of wisdom today.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
I'm curious what your experience has been like.
Have you had any change in sort of a sense of home over the last couple of years?
I've had a deeper appreciation for home.
Right.
I'm a guy who really never got to spend as much time at home as he would have liked.