The Stoic Jew

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! 2:6 – You are doing yourself violence, violence, my soul; and you will have no second occasion to do yourself honor. Brief is the life of each of us, and this of yours is nearly ended, and yet you do not honor yourself, but commit your well-being to the charge of other men’s souls. ---------- If you have questions, comments, or feedback, I...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! 2:5 – Each moment think valiantly, as becomes a Roman and a man, to do what is to your hand, with precise … and unaffected dignity, natural love, freedom, and justice; and to give yourself repose from every other imagination. And so you will, if only you do each act as though it were your last, freed from every random aim, from willful tur...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! 2:4 – Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how many times God has given you days of opportunity, and yet you do not use them. Now it is high time to perceive the kind of universe of which you are a part and the nature of the Governor of the universe from whom you subsist as an effluence, and that the term of your t...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! 2:3 – The work of God is full of providence: the work of fortune is not divorced from nature or the spinning and winding of the threads ordained by providence. All flows from that other world; and there is, besides, necessity and the wellbeing of the whole universe, of which you are a part. Now to every part of nature – that is good which...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! 2:2 – This whatever it is that I am is flesh and vital spirit and the governing self. Disdain the flesh: blood and bones and network, a twisted skein of nerves, veins, and arteries. Consider also what the vital spirit is: a current of air, not even continuously the same, but every hour being expelled and sucked in again. There is then a th...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! 2:1 – Begin the morning by saying to yourself: “Today I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, the arrogant, the deceitful, the envious, and the unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and bad. But I, who have seen the nature of the good that it is right, and of the bad that it is wron...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Welcome to The Stoic Jew podcast! If you're new to the podcast, here's my advice: do NOT start listening from Episode 1. Instead, either start with the most recent episode and work your way backwards OR skip around and choose which episodes to listen to based on the titles and/or synopses. There's no need to go in order, and...