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Nothing Matters: About the Idea of "Emptiness"
Nothing Matters: About the Idea of "Emptiness"
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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Jan 17, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Between the Buddhist doctrine of ‘emptiness,’ the Jewish idea of Ayin, and the quantum mechanical zero-point energy of a vacuum, it turns out there’s quite a lot to be said about Nothing.
Guests
Janet Gyatso, Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard Divinity School
Daniel Matt, Scholar of Jewish Mysticism
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Guests
Janet Gyatso, Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard Divinity School
Daniel Matt, Scholar of Jewish Mysticism
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Released:
Jan 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917” (Cambridge UP, 2008): Every Jew knows the story. The evil tsarist authorities ride into the Shtetl. They demand a levy of young men for the army. Mothers’ weep. Fathers’ sigh. The community mourns the loss of its young. It’s a good story, and some of it’s even true. by New Books in Jewish Studies