Rabbi Shalom Carmy: How I Ground My Faith [Rationality 4/4]

In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Rabbi Shalom Carmy—philosophy and Jewish-studies professor at Yeshiva University and Editor Emeritus of Tradition—about how he grounds his faith.

Rabbi Carmy joins us to discuss the anthropological, covenantal, and experiential bases for religious belief.

•What should be the foundation of a person’s faith?
•What is the role of personal experience in relation to rational inquiry?
•How can we reinvigorate our religious outlook for the modern world?

Tune in to hear a conversation about how we handle questions that don’t come with definitive answers.

Interview begins at 14:04

Rabbi Shalom Carmy is a rabbi and professor, teaching philosophy and Jewish studies at Yeshiva University, where he is Chair of Bible and Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva College and an affiliated scholar at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Shalom is Editor Emeritus of Tradition, Contributing Editor of First Things, and has published hundreds of articles on Jewish thought, Tanach, and other subjects, along with being the mentor of many students over his years of teaching.

References:

Sefer HaChinukh

Chidushei Rabeinu Chaim Halevi – Rambam by Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk

“A Room With a View, But a Room of Our Own” by Rabbi Shalom Carmy

“A Peshat in the Dark: Reflections on the Age of Cary Grant” by Rabbi Shalom Carmy

Forgive Us, Father-in-Law, For We Know Not What To Think: Letter To A Philosophical Dropout From Orthodoxy by Rabbi Shalom Carmy

Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai: Orthodox Judaism and Modern Questions of Faith edited by Jeffrey Bloom, Alec Goldstein, and Gil Student

"Editor’s Note: Homer and the Bible" by Rabbi Shalom Carmy

“Of Eagle’s Flight and Snail’s Pace” by Rabbi Shalom Carmy

“Editors Note: Lost Cause: A Conclusion in Which Nothing is Concluded” by Rabbi Shalom Carmy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Rashi on Tanakh

Ramban on Torah

Rif on Talmud

Henry More: The Rational Theology of a Cambridge Platonist by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein

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