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  • Shmooze with Avi Loeb: from Extraterrestrial to Interstellar

    Shmooze with Avi Loeb: from Extraterrestrial to Interstellar

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    jacob

    This episode’s guest is Professor Avi Loeb, Astronomy chair at Harvard. He has done more than 2000 interviews since publishing his book, Extraterrestrial, about his conclusion that the interstellar object called ua’muamua was of alien origin. To add to the pile, our interview was fresh and deeply Jewish. Dr. Loeb may be known worldwide now…

  • 10: Our Seder in Outer Space

    10: Our Seder in Outer Space

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    jacob

    Passover and The Space Age go together. Before this podcast, Jacob began considering the impact of the Overview Effect on Jewish communities Worldwide. The Overview Effect being the cognition or experience of viewing the earth from space or in space. He wrote his original thoughts in an essay on Times of Israel blogs in 2021.…

  • 8: Havdalah – human senses in time and space

    8: Havdalah – human senses in time and space

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    jacob

    Havdalah begins with counting stars and ends with extinguishing a candle into wine. Space Midrash will explore how this weekly ritual enriches the human perception of time, on earth or anywhere in the cosmos…

  • Ep. 3: How do we see ourselves (from space)?

    Ep. 3: How do we see ourselves (from space)?

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    jacob

    As technology advances, we are increasingly thrust into a reality where we must come to terms with our place in the universe. This new reality has the potential to drastically change the way we see ourselves and our place in the world. Jewish civilization, with its long history of storytelling, has the opportunity to lead…