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Ep. 48 - An Exercise in Humility

Ep. 48 - An Exercise in Humility

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What is a righteous life worth? Abraham puts that question to G-d directly, negotiating on behalf of a city he owes nothing to and testing how many good people it takes to redeem the many. He opens at fifty people, and stops at nine. Rabbi Epstein explores why that number carries significance far beyond this one episode, and what it reveals about the kind of presence a small group of committed people can have in a world that seems too far gone to save.

Along the way, the conversation turns to what humility actually looks like when you are, by any honest measure, a great man. And the episode circles back to Lot, the nephew Abraham could not quite let go of, and the choices that placed him in a city under judgment in the first place. By the time the angels reach the gates of Sodom, one question lingers: if Abraham understood exactly what it would take to save the city, why didn't he go there himself and do it?

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