Spirituality and action go together

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My father was a human rights
activist as a rabbi

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in Argentina against
the dictatorship.

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And he never asked, you know,

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the people who were being
oppressed by the police

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and the government, the military
if they were Jewish or not.

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He would just do it from his,
like a spiritual activism

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drawing upon the
wellsprings of prophecy.

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My spiritual action
comes from there.

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I always learn that spirit and
action have to go together.

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It's like, okay, you can meditate
and be very spiritual

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but if you're not nice to people that
doesn't make any sense.

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Like the whole point is
to be a kinder person

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and be aware of justice and love.

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And so it doesn't matter how
spiritual or what kind of work

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you do religiously if
you can't apply it in real life.

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It doesn't, it's not worth it.