Rabbi Wildes is joined by Emmy award winning TV writer David Sacks to discuss his path from Hollywood (The Simpsons, Third Rock From The Sun) to spiritual leader in the Los Angeles community. In the first half of the podcast David discusses the challenges he faced as an Orthodox Jew in the secular world of Hollywood which leads into the second half where David and Rabbi Wildes discuss the deepest teachings in Judaism which touch on the nature of the soul, why the world we live in seems so broken, the difference between Judaism and Buddhism's definition of transcendence and so much more.

Timestamps
00:00:00 - Introducing David Sacks
00:02:35 - Becoming A TV Writer
00:03:20 - David's Spiritual Journey
00:05:23 - Writing for The Simpsons
00:13:35 - Challenges as an Orthodox Jew
00:19:39 - The Immortality of the Soul
00:22:10 - The True Definition of Success
00:33:43 - Judaism vs. Buddhism
00:36:35 - Believing in Something Deeper
00:41:55 - The Illusion of Time
00:47:18 - God Plays Hide & Seek
00:52:05 - Why the World is Messed Up
00:59:37 - Fix Yourself, Fix the World