Maybe it’s just because it’s relatively small but so far this is one of the least toxic community’s on KZfaq. Mostly very thoughtful comments. Way to go people, your humanity is showing :)

I am an atheist and this is the best discussion of faith, values, religion, belief, skepticism, and every related topic that I have ever listened to. Compare the wisdom and insight expressed by these two men to the trite garbage spewed by EVERY TV evangelist and you will understand why I listened to this with intention and attention while every TV evangelist whom I have stumbled upon was revolting and disgusting within minutes and I could not tolerate for more than a few minutes. This is priceless. Thank you for posting this in this time of extreme intolerance and partisan bickering.

5 minutes in and im already crazy impressed by the openness of this priest man

The Rabbi mentioned an Asimov story. It's called "the last question" and it's will worth reading! Thanks for sharing this beautiful conversation!

I honestly didn't think I'd be into this one. However, I find myself listening to it intently in the supermarket car park hoping the misses takes a bit longer with the car, as I'm pretty enthralled. Answered a few questions I've always had on religious jews and none religious Jews. Cool beans, cheers eric

A wonderful conversation

Such a beautiful talk, my father and I were talking about how amazing and robust and brilliant Jewish culture is, and how every culture could use such a robust structural integrity to call home. Thank you for providing great insight into just how nuanced and variable your culture is. Ive never felt as comfortable listening to a religious man speak as this dude right here! Thanks man, and keep em coming, we love you brotha!

I absolutley love The Weinstein Brothers.... Phenomenal conversation Eric! Thank you for this learning experience...

I listened to the whole thing twice. As an outsider, I am fascinated with Jewish culture and wisdom. Do more of this.

Absolutely fantastic podcast. One of my favorites this far. I do have to say that I agree with the Rabbi in his answer to Eric’s final question

26:00 "....Seinfeld the show was one of the greatest innovations in modern Judaism." It took a while but I knew there would be a gem in here. ..also there is Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Im not especially religious but always really liked listening to Rabbi David

Such a beautiful, enlightening conversation. It was a joy to listen to! Much respect and admiration to both of you. :)

Wonderful! Have be excited to see another Portal episode. Thank you so much.

I'm a frequent podcast listener, and this is now my favourite podcast channel! Eric produces so much high quality content! I'm sure this podcast channel will surpass Joe Rogan if the quality is maintained and the show is continued!!!!! 👌💐 Keep it up Eric 👍 we love you

Love the podcast, just because of the shout-out to my cities. Listened to it while I was in Belgrade and missing my home Lahore!

What a nice treat for the evening!

Thank you for this interview, Eric. It answered a lot of my questions about Judaism. I now have a better understanding and have you and Rabbi Wolpe to thank.

As a non Jew this was an excellent and very informative podcast. Please keep doing these Eric!!

Amazing episode, thank you both for having a discussion about these topics. I don't think I would have ever stumbled across Rabbi Wolpe otherwise, but I love that I did. More please!

I didn't think that would be anywhere near as fascinating a conversation about religious and secular Jewish culture as it turned out. I don't care how long it takes the two of you to finish an episode of Seinfeld pausing every 30 seconds to make commentary. I will watch EVERY. SINGLE. MINUTE.

Well done gentleman, that was my favourite podcast ever, and i've seen/listened to hundreds over the last 15 years, thank you Eric for inviting Rabbi Wolpe on, you both really impressed me.

I didn't realize how much I'd been craving intellectual conversation, I've watched all of the episodes multiple times!

The power of a Proper conversation 🙏

Fantastic interview, Thank you.

Great episode, maybe the most sensible, intelligent, thoughtful discussion about religion I've ever heard. Thanks Eric.

One of the best podcasts I have listened to

This discussion was utterly fascinating, thank you!

This was an excellent conversation, and I learned much about Judaism in terms of the intersection between family, culture, spirituality that I had never realized before. The rabbi is a very pleasant speaker to listen to as well. Eric, a conversation that would be fascinating to hear would be one between you and Christopher Langan, with his Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe and how it may tie into the nature of reality in a more mathematical/physical way.

This was a fantastic conversation.. so much in here that applies to all of us

Yes, please. More of this. Absolutely have the good Rabbi back to talk about Seinfeld. I especially liked his stories about his congregation.

Absolutely great dialogue Eric and Rabbi! I so look forward to every dialogue you allow me to follow.

Definitely the best portal to date! Both of you had excellent takes and responded to each other beautifully as well.

I've sat through an hour and a half of this podcast and I have no idea what these two are selling, however, I'm absolutely certain I'm paying retail for it.

By some reason i am very happy that i found this channel. Eric, i'm grateful for your work, thank you.

So happy when I feel I learned something new. Portal, truly apt name!!

Wonderful episode! Thank you for allowing us to be a fly on the wall.

It is so bizarre to listen to Jewish conversation in English and realise that some of what I considered polish words that my mum taught me are spoken here and might have yiddish root. Thank you Eric and thank you Rabbi for giving me a better window into our souls.

Ever since you announced the show on Joe Rogan's podcast I have been super pumped for every episode of the portal. This one is of no exception. Thanks Eric and thank you Rabbi David Wolpe. Great Job looking forward to the next one.

thank you SO much for this. I am excited to hear more of your conversations.

Great podcast gentlemen. Very enjoyable dialogue between two thoughtful individuals.

I love this podcast. Such valuable lines of thought, opposition, and collaboration simultaneously. Generosity without the free lunch.

Thank you both for a wonderful discussion I feel like getting so much ❤️

Amazing podcast!! If this is an indication of the quality of debate on the Portal, bring it on!! Not a dull second in the whole show. Thank you to all concerned.

Thanks for much for these conversations. Really enjoy listening in on them.

This was a fascinating and deep conversation. I've always enjoyed Rabbi Wolpe in the History Channel episodes on the Bible. This was a lot of fun. I'll have to watch this over several times.

Had only seen Wolpe in the context of Hitchens so was not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did. Thank you, Eric and David.

Eric, brah, love your stuff. You're perhaps my favourite living thinker and listening to you just chat with other interesting people is as good as rare candy goddamn. Super stoked you made the decision to host your own podcast, enjoying it a metric shitload so please don't stop, important conversation are yet to be had.

Great discussion. Well done Eric thank you.

This was a great, intellectually stimulating conversation. I’d love to see David and other religious leaders on the podcast more often.

As an American 🇺🇸 /Persian 🇮🇷, i see 100% truth in conversation, accurate info great podcast 🔥

very hard day and its an absolute delight to come home to an episode of The Portal, thanks Eric!

Splendid conversation: thank you both.

I lived with my friend and his family, who was very Greek, for a few years. While I was living with them, I was taught I should sing and play my guitar at all family functions. They said it was because I wasn't any good at cooking. ;) Or in otherwords, everyone should bring what they are good at to the family table. Don't be afraid to share your skills with others everywhere you go. If we were all good at the same things we would have no need for community. All squirrels are good at finding nuts. People are not squirrels. Tradition is what we bring to the table. We don't want a homogenized society, no matter what people have been saying as of late. Keep spreading the truth.

As an atheist this is what I do respect and desire from religion. The ability of religion to empower mindfulness and gratefulness.

Damn Eric, You're killing it

Wonderful conversation. Keep the portal open Eric, the rest are on the way!

Only 30 minutes into this one and I would recommend it to anyone. I LOVE these types of conversations!!!

I'm an orthodox Jew, and I always wanted to hear a more detailed approach to conservative and reform, thank you! Very informative.

This was amazing, thank you

It took me awhile to get to this episode... what worthwhile could a rabbi have to say to a physicist? Always the fool-this was an incredible conversation and emphasizes everything I respect about religious thinking despite everything I do not. Plus I got to hear, “the struggle to give meaning to meaning,” which I have tucked snugly into my breast pocket.

Brilliant. Forcing me to think and deal with questions and statements that I have successfully avoided, 'thank you

David Wolpe is one the only theists i like to listen even tho I disagree with him.

this is a fantastic conversation I'm loving it so much

i see a new portal episode and i give a thumbs up in advance.

always great conversations, well structured and executed, never a dull moment.

My favorite so far, by a country mile.

sermons about seinfeld? as a christian atheist living in berlin i'd tune in any time!

I cant stop falling in love with this podcast

As a Roman Catholic, turned Athiest, turned Pantheist I found this conversation informative and respectful as against some of the confrontational believers vs atheist debates, well done Rabbi Wolpe and Mr Weinstein.

Wow, that ending. Amazing episode.

Really enjoying these conversations and the podcast Eric. I hope to listen to a whole string of them while walking across Spain this spring.

Lots of love from Calcutta. It was wonderful hearing that Eric's wife has roots back to the Calcutta Jews!

Lex Fridman brought me here. Glad he did too this was fantastic.

I've never commented before on a video but I felt like I had to. Huge fan of Eric's, but I had to clarify the point about Islam and the interpretation of the Quran. While Eric was correct on the 4 schools, what he failed to realize was that these schools exist precisely because there are differing interpretations of the Quran. As David clarified, the Torah is not inherently self explanatory as is the case with the Quran. Great convo though!

Just a beautiful conversation between two intelligent and wise men. And I say this as an atheist.

That was incredible!

You guys finally did it!!! No stray cords to distract the viewer from the conversation!😀

Greetings from Serbia :)

My new favorite podcast.

Hi Eric. Would be great to see you talk to Pastor Tim Keller one day. Thanks for a great show.

Thank you Eric! I shared this on my Facebook to my tribe (not Tigburt Jones) They’re a group of entrepreneurs, i hope they jump on board!

The portal is out and out the best pod cast ! Thabks Eric

Eric “the courage to stand alone” Weinstein

Did not expect a mention of cities I lived in as a kid, Lahore and Karachi. Listening to this from Sydney and wanna thank Eric for getting into some of the tensions that I have grappled with myself at a very personal level. I wish he could keep Rabi a bit longer and delve a bit deeper, but Kudos to Rabi for his stamina. Such an honest and humble religious figure, deriving his opinions and understandings from an understanding of the text of his tradition. He was respectful of science and other philosophies and recognised his limitations as a human as he mentioned towards the end. I wonder how fascinating would it be, if Eric could find a similar figure from Islamic world who is able to talk openly and freely without a fear of the loudest mob.

8:37 Atheist here. Favorite holiday is Christmas. There are cultural Christian atheists.

I'd really appreciate some interpretative dancing of The Portal theme tune.

Found Eric because of Physics but thought this conversation one of the most enlightening. Grew up in Workmens Circle as well.

Thank you Rabbi for your faith and message to believers like me, and so sad that an extremely smart scientist cannot see how mysterious our own existence is

Keep up the enlightenment and inquiry. Really appreciate what you're doing here. Only channel that I've enabled notifications on and I click on new vids as soon as they pop up.

51:10 "God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Wishing/praying for dyslexia on to your first child broke me, it made me cry. As a dislexic it was one of the hardest things to here, at 36 I'm only just starting to find it an advantage in my life.

Thank you so much for the 5 generations of Jewish atheists. It's so much more reasonable than I thought it was. Thank you. Thank you.

Really enjoyed that, please keep going.

thanks for this … really enjoy your podcasts … and the guests that you have on … you and Lex are my favorite people to listen to …

Say it with me friends: What do we want? A consistent upload schedule!

Loved this. Unrelated, really hoping you’re planning on having Thomas Sowell on. I’d love to see him in this format!

One of the least viewed of the series but one of the 'best' conversations ever to have taken place

Beautiful conversation, gentlemen; thank you. I was going to comment about something early on, but wanted to hear the rest first so I just jotted down a few notes. ... that was a mistake because it became pages, might have to explore a few in videos later but some tl;dr bullet points: -big agree on necessary public dialogue regarding the rectification of extremes being vital mode of thinking -i try to never dismiss things out of hand; if i knew everything, i would have a better explanation to explore -absolute faith and absolute atheism both persevere as valid possibilities even with proof for one (or both) sides, like an agnosticism of religious inspiration and rigorous collaboration -love the point about Talmudic humor; envisions culture having pseudo-monolithic backbone, resonating by shared heritage -burden of shepherding birthright enables guidance of tradition in constructed wilderness, but without negating validity of the faith -longest timescale aggregates perspective in retrospective; think Book of Life by your eventual legacy. what remains/proves out to be good is absolute, atemporal morality. -apply same approach to all cultural structures in light of impending post-scarcity -pre-grammar/genetic predisposition for belief very possible. Complexity of genetics in transfer, reception, and reinforcement occurs within and by family stricture; want strong genes? have a strong cultural faith -^Yahweh's deal w Abraham, btw; yes, homosexuality is obviously abomination *to the goals of progeny proliferation* - incompatibility with moral structure is for specific purposes -self hating trope belies aimlessness with energy devoted to pursuing rigorous belief viewed as loss; culturally institutionalized depression -with transparency, age of nuance is no longer an issue of gatekeeping but tiered layers of meaning and decentralized inspiration -compromised institutions are drowning in the shallow end because it was deeper until the water level dropped. still labeled dangerous and the placebo effect is a harsh mistress -Holocaust reconciliation is a point of cultural psyche; good call -mathematic perfection enables pursuit of final few seals with rapidly self-perfecting technology and culture symbiosis, a post-scarcity institutional pursuit unraveling mysteries all the way, mapping the borders and shared spaces amongst faiths and sciences

Most excellent. More religious discussions, please!