{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Jewish Ideas to Change the World","title":"Samuel Fleischacker - Existentialist Messianism","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/cc099a55\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5003,"description":"Professor Samuel Fleischacker, the LAS Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois-Chicago, presents his lecture \"Existentialist Messianism\" before a roundtable audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ.\n\nABOUT THIS LECTURE: Martin Buber ended a 1909 lecture he gave in Prague with a parable suggesting that each of us is responsible for bringing the Messiah. Some years later, Franz Kafka – who may have been in Buber’s audience – wrote a famous story that echoes Buber’s parable in striking ways. A little later, Walter Benjamin wrote what looks like a riff on it. We’ll look at all three texts, plus the Talmudic passage on which Buber was drawing, and consider whether they give us a modern, existentialist way of making sense of Messianism.\n\nDONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP\nLEARNING MATERIALS: https://bit.ly/2VCdqEm\n\nFor more info, please visit: \nwww.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/\nwww.facebook.com/temple.chai\ntwitter.com/VBMTorah\nwww.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/\n\nMusic: \"They Say\" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rgXhZfTlnTjybGe2Y8VJvw1nIGugVMdj7wEKsMGYlrk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5ODEyLzE2NTEw/Nzg1NjAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}