Deep Dive with Michael Lezak on Service as a North Star

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Michael Lezak is a rabbi who spends most of his time in service, shoulder to shoulder with some of America’s poorest citizens in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, living his faith day to day. He also leads pilgrimages from SF to Montgomery, Alabama to see Bryan Stevenson’s incredible memorial there and still manages to take a 25 hour break from technology every week. He and Kelly talk about how his devotion to his practice of Judaism enriches his life on the deepest level. Special thanks to the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, our production partner on the Belief series. Please subscribe, rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts! We read and appreciate every review. Join Kelly on Instagram @kellycorrigan. (Originally aired on 10/5/2021) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We show up to heal our kids, our parents, or members of our community.
0:06.7	That is being incredibly godlike.
0:09.6	Or to bind up wounds, to bind up communities that might have ruptured.
0:13.8	That is some of the holiest work to do.
0:15.6	Hey, I'm Kelly Corrigan and this is Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:19.1	We are doing a series on belief right now in the hopes that if we map out the right set of questions
0:24.4	and the right mindset we might make it easier for everyone to talk to neighbors
0:28.8	and in-laws and colleagues about their core beliefs without judgment.
0:34.0	This week I'm talking to Michael Lezak, a rabbi who spends most of his time in service shoulder
0:39.5	to shoulder with some of America's poorest citizens living his faith.
0:44.4	He also leads pilgrimages from San Francisco to Montgomery, Alabama to see Brian Stephen's
0:49.7	incredible memorial.
0:51.6	So we'll be right back with Rabbi Michael Lezak. Hey, welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:05.0	Before we jump into this conversation,
1:09.0	I thought I should give you a touch of context about Glide Memorial Church.
1:13.0	That's where Michael Leesack works.
1:15.0	It is a total institution in San Francisco,
1:18.0	but if you haven't been there, it started in 1929,
1:22.0	there was a philanthropist named Lizzyie Glide, and she bought the space.
1:25.9	But it's really known for this era that started in 1963 when the super energetic minister
1:32.3	named Cecil Williams took over and it's just
1:36.4	this radically inclusive place that's focused on love and justice and
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