The AI Gods Taking Away our Souls and Our Community

Authentic, Compassionate Judaism for the Thinking Person by Rabbi Nadav Caine

Dec 8, 202518:08Religion & Spirituality

My Kol Nidrei 2025 Sermon on how our phones are amplifying the centrifugal force of the pull of our individual lives, sacrificing the centripetal force of community, by holding out a fake community, a false version of ou...

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