Dave Cowen of Shuffle Synchronicities talks with Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson.
Ostensibly about Haggadahs as Jay is known for his 15 years of covering the liturgy text for the holiday of Passover as “The World’s Greatest Expert in Haggadot” and Dave has just published his fifth parody one, THE MESHUGAH KANYE HAGGADAH: A PARODY PASSOVER MUSICAL, but Jay & Dave end up talking about a lot more: Billy Joel, enlightenment versus spiritual bypass, seed retention, messianism, pornography, Lou Reed, synchronicities, and yes a bit of Haggadahs and Ye fka Kanye West…
Jay Michaelson is a journalist at New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, and other publications, having previously been a columnist for The Daily Beast for eight years. He has written over 1400 articles on the Supreme Court, religion, LGBTQ issues, climate change, and other topics. Jay previously worked as a professional LGBTQ activist for ten years.
The Ivy League grad and lawyer and Enneagram 7 is also a rabbi and meditation teacher who has also authored several books on meditation, religion, and spirituality. And he was an editor and podcast host for Ten Percent Happier for four years.
Jay’s affiliated as an assistant professor at Chicago Theological Seminary and is a visiting fellow at the Center for LGBTQ Studies in Religion. He holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. His tenth book, The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth, published by Oxford University Press, won the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for scholarship.
Find more @ https://www.jaymichaelson.net/
Podscript 🎙📇 will be emailed out as well soon!
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