Show Notes
At the start of a new Jewish year, one of Judaism’s leading thinkers asks what it truly means to choose life.
Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove and Jon Frankel welcome renowned Jewish thinker Rabbi Yitz Greenberg for a Rosh Hashanah conversation about creation, renewal and the choices that give life meaning.
Greenberg reflects on his new collection, Life Against Death, and explores Jewish responsibility, Israel, pluralism and why the High Holidays call us not simply to reflect—but to choose life.
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