Amos, Yosef & A Pair Of Shoes (cross-posted from The Matan Podcast)

This week Rabbi Joe had the pleasure of being a guest once again on the Matan podcast joining Yosefa Fogel Wruble for a conversation about the haftara of Parshat Vayeshev taken from the prophet Amos. You can listen to the consistently excellent Matan parsha podcast at https://www.matan.org.il/en/matan-podcast/ ----- In this conversation with R. Joe Wolfson, we explore Amos’ rebuke of the opulent and socially corrupt N. Kingdom of Israel from this week’s Haftorah.   A.J. Heschel, political theorist Michael Walzer, and Louis Brandeis all help connect Amos’ criticisms with the ways a society can erase people’s humanity and how we might mend this. For more info on R. Joe’s community visit the JLIC Tel Aviv website: https://tlv.oujlic.org/ This week’s episode is dedicated in memory of Daniel Shalom ben Refael Yaakov, by his children, on his third yahrzeit. This year The Matan Podcast is exploring the weekly Haftorah.