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The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind

The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind

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Welcome to The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind, a podcast that tells the story of the prophets, philosophers, and poets who created the West. In this podcast, Rabbi Dr. Mitchell Rocklin guides listeners through more than 3,000 years of Western history, offering a coherent, civilizational story of how the West came to be—along with a deepened understanding of the challenges it now faces. While many of the texts discussed will be familiar to students of the humanities, Rabbi Rocklin offers a new framework for understanding them—a framework in which the teachings of the Jewish religious tradition play a central role. For, as Rabbi Rocklin explains, Western civilization can only be understood as the product of a transformative and ongoing collision between the great traditions of Jerusalem and Athens—between the religious spirit of the Jews and the philosophical spirit of the Greeks.2024 Espiritualidad Judaísmo Mundial
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  • Montaigne and Shakespeare: The Rise of the Individual

    Montaigne and Shakespeare: The Rise of the Individual
    Oct 16 2025

    Modernity continues to emerge with the writings of Montaigne and Shakespeare. On today’s episode, Rabbi Rocklin will help us address the following questions:

    1. Why did Montaigne love history as a tool to understand the human character?
    2. How does Montaigne’s approach to education diverge from his contemporaries’ such that we might recognize his approach in today’s world of education?
    3. What sets Shakespeare’s plays apart from his contemporaries’ and makes his works relevant throughout the centuries?

    Recommended Reading: Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life. New York: Harper Perennial, 2001.
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    34 m
  • Kabbalah: Mysticism and Science

    Kabbalah: Mysticism and Science
    Oct 9 2025

    The study of Kabbalah—Jewish mysticism—will play an outsized role in shaping not only Western thought but even modern science. To explore the topic, we’ll turn to the following questions:

    1. What is Kabbalah and why did it become important, as an area of study, for Christian thinkers and scholars?
    2. How does Kabbalah further develop the notion of human agency?
    3. What role did Kabbalah play in the development of modern science?

    Recommended Reading: Coudert, Allison P. Hebraica Veritas: Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe. Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2024.
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    41 m
  • Swords, Spurs, and Gunpowder: A History of Religious Wars

    Swords, Spurs, and Gunpowder: A History of Religious Wars
    Oct 1 2025

    The amount of bloodshed that took place following the Protestant Reformation is staggering. As we try to make sense of the religious wars, we’ll explore the following questions:

    1. What role did chivalric virtues play in bolstering Protestantism in France?
    2. Why did local Catholics in the Low Countries oppose an inquisition against Protestants?
    3. How did the Treaty of Westphalia, which recognized Protestantism as legitimate, differ from the Peace of Augsburg a century earlier?
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    45 m
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