The Stoic Jew Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 19 minutes even (Steven)Synopsis: This episode was inspired by four occurrences that recently befell me, each of which involved what we'll dub "a minor monetary fluctuation." The rest of the episode is devoted to unpacking the insights from these occurrences, using Epictetus as our guide, Jerry Seinfeld as our role model, and Rambam as the teacher who connects it back to Torah.Sources:- Epictetus, Enchiridion (The Handbook) 4-...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 17 minutes 48 secondsSynopsis: Yesterday I walked into a swarm of bees. In this episode, I reflect on that experience and follow my musings to the writings of Epictetus, to the bee reference in Tehilim 118, to musings about Israel's present war, and to yesterday's commemoration of the Holocaust.Sources: - Epictetus, Enchiridion (The Handbook) 1:5; Discourses 2:18- Malbim on Tehilim 118:10-12- Bamidbar 10:9-----I'd like to than...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 21 minutesSynopsis: And The Stoic Jew Podcast is BACK! Or is it? Well, it's back for at least this episode, in which I reflect on 1000 days of gratitude and muse on the relationship between my gratitude accountability practice and the mitzvah of recounting the Exodus from Egypt. Whether this marks the return of regular TSJ episodes is up to my listeners!Related Episodes About Gratitude:- 7/8/21: The Gratitude Accountability Ex...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 22 minutesSynopsis: And we're back! By "we" I mean The Stoic Jew Podcast AND my insomnia! :D I've been up since 3:35am this morning, and I decided to make a podcast episode about my latest Stoic Jew take on my situation, based on the words of Marcus Aurelius and Koheles (Ecclesiastes), as explained by Ralbag (Gersonides).Related Episodes about Insomnia:- Blaming My Insomnia on Satan - A Cure for Insomnia … I Hope- Applying Epi...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 34 minutes 10 secondsSynopsis: What will you do or say in your last moments, when (God willing) you are on your deathbed? In this episode I reflect on the final words of U.S. presidents, the death poems of Zen monks and Japanese haiku poets, the statements and attitudes of the Sages of the Talmud about the particular circumstances in which we die, the final moments of the Jews massacred on October 7th (may Hashem avenge their ...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 8 minutes 11 secondsSynopsis: This is the audio version of the 2.5-page article I published on rabbischneeweiss.substack.com/ on 11/17/23, entitled: God of Time or Dog Eating Its Own Vomit? I wrote this in lieu of a parashah article because I needed to write it for myself. If I don't write for myself, who will write for me? And if not now, when? (parashah article can be found at the end)-----The Torah content for the rem...