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Rabbi Lord Sacks on Empowering Young People and the Importance of Safe Spaces on Campus
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1:11:30 - 1:20:11 (08:40)

Rabbi Lord Sacks emphasizes the need for a national story, a national ritual, and empowering young people to bring back the "we." He also shares his perspective on safe spaces, cancel culture, and free speech, expressing the importance of respectful listening and intellectual robustness for the collaborative pursuit of truth.

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Former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks proposes a new way of honoring Remembrance Sunday in Britain by creating a new ritual where the morning is dedicated to war and the past, the afternoon to peace and the future, and empowering young people to make the world a better place through altruism.
1:11:30 - 1:13:43 (02:12)
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Remembrance Sunday
Summary

Former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks proposes a new way of honoring Remembrance Sunday in Britain by creating a new ritual where the morning is dedicated to war and the past, the afternoon to peace and the future, and empowering young people to make the world a better place through altruism.

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Rabbi Lord Sacks on Empowering Young People and the Importance of Safe Spaces on Campus
Episode
#455: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on Powerful Books, Mystics, Richard Dawkins, and the Dangers of Safe Spaces
Podcast
The Tim Ferriss Show
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talks about the need for safe spaces where people can respectfully listen to opposing viewpoints and develop intellectual robustness, rather than creating unsafe spaces where people can cancel those with opposing views.
1:15:40 - 1:18:14 (02:34)
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Safe spaces
Summary

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talks about the need for safe spaces where people can respectfully listen to opposing viewpoints and develop intellectual robustness, rather than creating unsafe spaces where people can cancel those with opposing views. He draws an analogy with peanut allergies in children to illustrate the importance of being exposed to challenging viewpoints from an early age to develop immunity to them.

Chapter
Rabbi Lord Sacks on Empowering Young People and the Importance of Safe Spaces on Campus
Episode
#455: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on Powerful Books, Mystics, Richard Dawkins, and the Dangers of Safe Spaces
Podcast
The Tim Ferriss Show
This Talmudic tale tells the story of Rabbi Yohanan and his study partner, Reish Lakish, and the importance of challenging one's own ideas and listening to opposing views.
1:18:15 - 1:20:11 (01:55)
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Talmud
Summary

This Talmudic tale tells the story of Rabbi Yohanan and his study partner, Reish Lakish, and the importance of challenging one's own ideas and listening to opposing views.

Chapter
Rabbi Lord Sacks on Empowering Young People and the Importance of Safe Spaces on Campus
Episode
#455: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on Powerful Books, Mystics, Richard Dawkins, and the Dangers of Safe Spaces
Podcast
The Tim Ferriss Show