This week on Judaism in the 21st Century, Steve Labkoff and Rabbi Daniel Cohen talk about how summer can be more than a pause in the Jewish calendar. After the intensity of Pesach, the Omer, and Shavuot, the slower months before Rosh Hashanah can become a powerful opportunity for spiritual growth, renewed purpose, and deeper connection.

Rabbi Cohen shares a practical “three-minute program” that anyone can begin today: one minute of prayer, one minute of learning, and one minute of reaching out to make a difference in someone’s life. Even better, stretch it to 15 minutes a day this summer and see how it changes the rhythm of your days.

What if, one day, a chip could be implanted in your brain containing every Jewish text, every commentary, and every insight from every Torah scholar across history?

Would that mean you had truly learned Torah?

In this episode of Judaism in the 21st Century, Dr. Steven Labkoff and Rabbi Daniel Cohen explore a fascinating question at the intersection of Judaism, artificial intelligence, humility, and wisdom. Is Torah study simply the acquisition of information, or is it the struggle, discipline, mentorship, relationship, and transformation that shape the soul?

From Shavuot learning to Neuralink-style possibilities, this conversation asks whether instant knowledge can ever replace the human journey of learning, arguing, growing, and becoming wiser.

A thoughtful discussion about AI, Torah, humility, hubris, and why wisdom may require more than data.

Artificial intelligence is no longer something “out there” in the future. It is already shaping how we write, learn, search, diagnose, decide, and even think.

In this episode of Judaism in the 21st Century, Rabbi Daniel Cohen turns the tables and interviews Dr. Steven Labkoff about one of today’s most urgent ethical frontiers: AI. What exactly is artificial intelligence? How is it different from machine learning or algorithms? And what happens when AI begins helping us write sermons, synthesize ideas, make medical judgments, or shape religious and moral decisions?

Together, they explore the Jewish lens on questions of authorship, authenticity, geneivat da’at, human responsibility, and the danger of outsourcing moral judgment. AI may be able to organize knowledge, find patterns, and help us communicate more clearly. But Judaism reminds us that free choice, conscience, accountability, and the human soul cannot be delegated to a machine.

This conversation does not offer all the answers. But it raises the right questions for a brave new world.