Detail View: Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi Collection: Creating Our Jewish Future (Thursday Daytime) - Timecode window burn - Tape #12

Identifier: 
narv_zalman_135_34_creatingOurJewishFutureThursdayDaytimeTimecodeWindowBurnTape2_a.mp4
Title: 
Creating Our Jewish Future (Thursday Daytime) - Timecode window burn - Tape #12
Description: 
A continuation of the 3 day seminar at UC Boulder Memorial Center. There are 3 speakers, and classroom groups on this tape. The first speaker Rabbi Joseph Telushkin discusses anger, rage, relationships, and speaking well of others. He says many divorces are the result of worn out love due to cruel language. Anger is destructive and people believe what is said in anger. Anger is not a rational emotion, and we act irrationally. So we need to learn mechanisms to monitor it. Anger is sometimes justified, but often times it’s expressed disproportionally to the infraction. He maintains it is not unhealthy to suppress anger. Also, we should restrict an expression of anger to the issue that provoked it. He says people destroy relationships, but they have control over anger. He goes on to discuss gossip, rumors, slander, and negative untruths. He says when someone becomes associated with negative information, they become that association. We have no right to destroy reputation, and if we have anger we should proceed cautiously. He gives guidelines to help in criticizing. He asks audience to go 24 hours without saying anything unkind about anyone. He asks for audience questions (audience inaudible). Reb Zalman comes to the stage and speaks on this topic relative to karma and reincarnation. There’s inertia in karma, one good deed brings on another. There’s no way to get out of karma, it reinforces itself. He then discusses renewal and a new understanding. Our soul knows about how we should live and behave, but most times it doesn’t add up to tradition. We’re creating a new tradition, and we must share it with one another. Prayer time and a break follows. There are smaller classroom groups led by rabbis on the film. Rabbi Irwin Kula takes the stage and discusses Jewish renewal. He talks about the changes in Boulder, the challenges of being a teacher in town, and the emerging Talmud. He says we’re living a paradigm shift. We don’t know how to articulate what it feels like yet. We must search for oneness. Paradigm change means you don’t know the next step. You leap into the abyss. We don’t know what right Jewishness is for tomorrow. It’s pathless, and every day is a new acceptance-- a turning from externals to a returning home. Go into yourself. Return home to your innermost life. Do it together, and we’ll be blessed as one. The talk ends with Rabbi Kula leading singing and chanting in a circle.
Subject: 
Jews--Social life and customs
Subject: 
Anger
Subject: 
Karma
Subject: 
Jewish renewal
Type: 
Moving image
Source: 
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Collection
Relation: 
For more information about the physical collection, visit the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections.
Relation Type: 
Local
Coverage Spatial: 
Boulder (Boulder, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
Coverage Spatial Type: 
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013446
Creator: 
Telushkin, Joseph, 1948-
Creator: 
Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman, 1924-2014
Creator: 
Kula, Irwin
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Date: 
Undated
Format Extent: 
1:57:00
Format Medium: 
video/mp4
Identifier ARK: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/3k1c9d36v35b