Weird Being Jewish: Three Rabbis Walk Into a Podcast

What should happen at the High Holy Days? What is True Teshuvah? 

How are Jews seen? How do we see ourselves? Why do we get so excited - and should we? - when some famous person turns out to have some Jewish connection? 

America seems to want to talk about masculinity, and a lot of folks on the right seem to want more of it! The three rabbis jump in to ask, what exactly is masculinity, and what does Jewish masculinity look like? 

In this episode of Weird Being Jewish, Rabbis Jeffrey Weill, Matt Reimer, and Josh Rose talk about Jewish perseverance, grit, and survival — why resilience has become such a central Jewish value, and what it costs us when survival becomes the whole story. Starting with the instinct to "show up" after tragedy, the conversation moves into deeper questions about Am Yisrael Chai, the Shema, chosenness, peoplehood, antisemitism, and whether Judaism is ultimately about enduring for our own sake or persevering in order to serve something larger than ourselves.

Rabbi Jeffrey is on his annual trip to the Rabbinical Longshoremen convention in Witchita but Rabbis Josh and Matt explore the enduring question of "Why Do A Mitzvzah" and essential question in Jewish life. We explore aligning our intentions with our actions, and explore how to be better Jews.