Shai Held — On Love, and Judaism

On Being with Krista Tippett by On Being Studios

Mar 26, 202601:17:21Society & Culture

From Krista: I'm on record bemoaning across the years that “love” is the most watered-down word in the English language. I know that invoking love feels very soft for our hard realms of politics and war. Yet it is an end...

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