Navigating the Nonideal (Sep 20, 2020)
High Holiday Sermons • 17m
Occasion(s) / Rosh Hashanah
Jewish law differentiates between ideal and nonideal situations. Rabbi Witkovsky uses this distinction to help us navigate the nonideal world in which we find ourselves. We must choose the values that are truly important to us and fight for them.
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