{"id":49436,"date":"2019-05-31T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=49436"},"modified":"2019-05-31T18:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T00:24:36","slug":"off-the-pulpit-the-brain-buber-and-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-the-brain-buber-and-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: The Brain, Buber and Being"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

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\u201cHowever the history of the individual and that of the human race may diverge in other respects, they agree in this at least: both signify a progressive increase of the It-world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Distancing ourselves from others and from the world, seeing a part rather than the whole, calculating in place of relating \u2013 these are maladies of our society. They have given us blessings too, as wizards of technology and technique. Increasingly however, as Buber warned almost a century ago, we are losing the connective tissue of relationship that alone is our salvation. Theology and brain science join hands with a plea to reintegrate and see ourselves as part of the world rather than masters of it, and to view others not as resources to be manipulated but human spirits to be embraced.<\/p>\n

(Rabbi David Wolpe is the senior rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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