SOCIAL VISION PODCAST (SVP)

Michael Wexler

Based on the book "Social Vision: The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Transformative Paradigm for the World." the podcast (narrated by co-author Michael Wexler) takes the listener on a chapter-by-chapter journey through the text, breaking down the ideas of Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism contained in this seminal work of religion/philosophy.

7 Episodes

PROLOGUE > IN SEARCH OF A NEW BEGINNING: AN INTRODUCTORY RETROSPECTIVE
12/11/2020
18:08
When a Sociologist embarks on a mission to find an escape from the "iron cage" of modern society, he stumbles onto a treasure trove of strikingly current solutions to today's problems in the ancient and indigenous wisdom of Jewish Mysticism.
CHAPTER ONE > SHATTERING THE IRON CAGE: FROM THE PROTESTANT ETHIC TO THE HASIDIC ETHOS
12/10/2020
23:49
Expanding on Sociologist Max Weber's famous analogy of the "iron cage" that imprisons and "petrifies" the soul of modern humanity, we begin to explore what the alternative. What can the "Hasidic Ethos" teach us?
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CHAPTER TWO > FROM CATASTROPHE TO RENAISSANCE: THE REBBE AND HASIDISM IN AMERICA
12/9/2020
21:02
"The Lubavitcher Rebbe" - the 7th in a dynastic line of Jewish Mystical sages - comes to America and sets up shop in Crown Heights, NY. He begins to attract a crowd and a following. What was his message?
CHAPTER THREE > THE SOCIAL CONSTITUTION OF HASIDISM AND THE DIVINIZATION OF THE COSMOS
12/8/2020
21:27
It's getting deep now. What does the social fabric of lived Hasidism look like and what do we mean by the "divinization" of the cosmos? Are we living in a random system where G-d "plays dice with the universe" or rather a benevolent matrix of some kind?
CHAPTER FOUR > THE PRINCIPLE OF RECIPROCITY BETWEEN SELF, COMMUNITY, AND COSMOS
12/7/2020
22:49
What should be our main focus in life? "Us" or "Them?" Jewish Mysticism posits a radical concept: through the technique of "reciprocity" that question itself becomes a false dichotomy. I.e. by serving oneself the community is edified and vice versa.
CHAPTER FIVE AND CHAPTER SIX > LEARNING HOW TO LIVE: PUBLIC EDUCATION AS SOCIAL REPAIR & SOCIO-MYSTICAL JUSTICE, HUMANISM, AND ECOLOGY
12/6/2020
24:12
What would Education look like if it encompassed the "whole person"; not just the impartation of knowledge but considerations of spirituality, ethics, and purpose? Could Education hold the "keys to the kingdom" not just for escaping from the virtual iron cage but the real one?
EPILOGUE > THE DYNAMIC OF DISENCHANTMENT AND REENCHANTMENT IN THE PAST AND FUTURE
12/5/2020
16:58
A conclusory episode in which we recapitulate and coalesce the various "bricks in the wall" that make up a potential new paradigm, as well as forecasting the implications of that new paradigm for society as a whole.

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SOCIAL VISION PODCAST (SVP)

Michael Wexler

7 Episodes

PROLOGUE > IN SEARCH OF A NEW BEGINNING: AN INTRODUCTORY RETROSPECTIVE

CHAPTER ONE > SHATTERING THE IRON CAGE: FROM THE PROTESTANT ETHIC TO THE HASIDIC ETHOS

CHAPTER TWO > FROM CATASTROPHE TO RENAISSANCE: THE REBBE AND HASIDISM IN AMERICA

CHAPTER THREE > THE SOCIAL CONSTITUTION OF HASIDISM AND THE DIVINIZATION OF THE COSMOS

CHAPTER FOUR > THE PRINCIPLE OF RECIPROCITY BETWEEN SELF, COMMUNITY, AND COSMOS

CHAPTER FIVE AND CHAPTER SIX > LEARNING HOW TO LIVE: PUBLIC EDUCATION AS SOCIAL REPAIR & SOCIO-MYSTICAL JUSTICE, HUMANISM, AND ECOLOGY

EPILOGUE > THE DYNAMIC OF DISENCHANTMENT AND REENCHANTMENT IN THE PAST AND FUTURE