The Stoic Jew

Why I Can’t Take the “Stoic” Out of “The Stoic Jew Podcast”

August 12, 2022 Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss Season 9 Episode 11
The Stoic Jew
Why I Can’t Take the “Stoic” Out of “The Stoic Jew Podcast”
Show Notes

Synopsis: I can imagine someone saying something like this: “Look, I get that YOU find value in the ideas of the Stoics, and feel the need to teach those ideas, but why can’t you do so EXCLUSIVELY through Torah sources? Why do you have to actually present the ideas from the Stoic texts themselves?” This episode is my answer to that question. 

Related Rabbi Schneeweiss Content:
- TSJ Interlude: A Defense of This Podcast
- Why Do You Value Stoicism as a Jew?
- Reflections of Truth 

Sources:
- Hillel Goldberg, Between Berlin and Slobodka: Jewish Transition Figures From Eastern Europe
- Lawrence Kaplan, Review Essay: Jewish Orthodoxy in the Twentieth Century Between Two Worlds
- Mishlei 1:20-21
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1840)
- Rabbi Bernie Fox, Thoughts on the Parashah, Concluding Paragraph of Thank You Letter
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