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Brothers Karamazov
“When I read Brothers Karamazov, I read it over a fairly long period of time, but the last 300 or 400 pages I read in a couple days because it’s such a page-turner.”
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Russ Roberts
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The Wondering Jew
“I recommend the book The Wondering Jew by Micah Goodman, that came out in the last few years, about what’s going on on the ground here in Israel and the amount of religious innovation that’s happening and how people who are “not religious” are connecting to Jewish text.”
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Zoom
“I think people have a great thirst for face to face and I don’t think Zoom is, I love Zoom.”
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The Pretense of Knowledge
“I’m a big fan of “The Pretense of Knowledge,” his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.”
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When I read Brothers Karamazov, I read it over a fairly long period of time, but the last 300 or 400 pages I read in a couple days because it’s such a page-turner.
“When I read Brothers Karamazov, I read it over a fairly long period of time, but the last 300 or 400 pages I read in a couple days because it’s such a page-turner.”
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As for the Torah, I think the biggest thing that I felt actually wasn’t in services or reading the Bible; it’s exploring different parts of the country I hadn’t ever been to before.
“As for the Torah, I think the biggest thing that I felt actually wasn’t in services or reading the Bible; it’s exploring different parts of the country I hadn’t ever been to before.”
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It’s about travel adventures, a sense of home, a very reliable wife who’s come with me for this adventure. And I’ve been writing about it recently for my next book — Penelope’s decision and dealing with the absence of her husband, but the idea of that book, which I think is just one of my favorite books, The Odyssey, is the idea that home pulls you.
“It’s about travel adventures, a sense of home, a very reliable wife who’s come with me for this adventure. And I’ve been writing about it recently for my next book — Penelope’s decision and dealing with the absence of her husband, but the idea of that book, which I think is just one of my favorite books, The Odyssey, is the idea that home pulls you.”
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I think people have a great thirst for face to face and I don’t think Zoom is, I love Zoom.
“I think people have a great thirst for face to face and I don’t think Zoom is, I love Zoom.”
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I also had a rule not to write in my books because I found that to be sacrilegious, in some sense, to deface the book.
“I also had a rule not to write in my books because I found that to be sacrilegious, in some sense, to deface the book.”
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I will say that, in my case, religion is a lot like marriage, and I say this as someone who is very happily married now for almost 30 years.
“I will say that, in my case, religion is a lot like marriage, and I say this as someone who is very happily married now for almost 30 years.”
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