Hold onto your symbological caps, in this episode of the Artifact Podcast, we look at how the menorah (the seven-branch Temple candelabrum) became a meme... and a metaphor... and we place the menorah metaphor in the flow of mind. Btw there are 4 minutes of out-takes at the end which Meir-Simchah finds hilarious.

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Get in touch with Meir-Simchah Panzer on Twitter @meirsimchah. Check out his other podcast Two Christians And A Jew, where he, his amazing Christian co-hosts, and their guests discuss how they read the Hebrew Scriptures differently and what difference it makes for their lives. It's like interfaith dialog but with engaged minds and hearts instead of that kumbaya crap.

Our theme music was arranged and performed by the great David Frankel.

On this episode of the Artifact Podcast, Nachliel and Meir-Simchah dive through the portal of a strange word in the Book of Samuel, meaning 'box'. This leads us to investigate loan words in general, some suprising loan words in the Torah, and ultimately into a discussion of the nature of the language of the Torah.

Our website is ArtifactPodcast.com. Please subscribe, share, post about us with the hashtag #ArtifactPodcast, and dopmine burst us some 5-star ratings and glowing reviews. You can also help us continue making the show by becoming our patron on Patreon http://www.patreon.com/ArtifactPodcast. 

Join our Facebook discussion group and tell us what you'd like us to cover. We've also got a Facebook page. We livestream our recording sessions, and we announce the livestreams there.

Get in touch with Nachliel Selavan on his website about his fantastic museum tours. You can also find him on LinkedIn, or on Instagram, Twitter, or Parler using his handle @museumtoursil.

Get in touch with Meir-Simchah Panzer on Twitter @meirsimchah. Check out his other podcast Two Christians And A Jew, where he, his amazing Christian co-hosts, and their guests discuss how they read the Hebrew Scriptures differently and what difference it makes for their lives. It's like interfaith dialog but with engaged minds and hearts instead of that kumbaya crap.

Our theme music was arranged and performed by the great David Frankel.

This episode in honor and memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is about the relationship between science and religion. It kicks off with an ammonite fossil, examines how several great religious thinkers have confronted the reality of fossils, explores The Map that Changed the World and Your Inner Fish (by Simon Winchester and Neil Shubin, respectively), and delves into the dialog carried on between Rabbi Sacks and Prof. Richard Dawkins.

Material is quoted from the 2012 Think Festival debate hosted by the BBC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roFdPHdhgKQ) and a Premier interview with Rabbi Sacks (https://www.premierchristianradio.com/content/search?q=rabbi+sacks). We also discuss Jordan Peterson who was interviewed by Rabbi Sacks (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06k5vn2).

Our website is ArtifactPodcast.com. Please subscribe, share, post about us with the hashtag #ArtifactPodcast, give us 5-star ratings and glowing reviews, and help us continue making the show by becoming our patron on Patreon http://www.patreon.com/ArtifactPodcast. 

Get in touch with us through our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/ArtifactPodcast and our Facebook discussion group https://www.facebook.com/groups/397213411493038, where you can hear about our next livestreamed recording session. Get in touch with Nachliel Selavan on his website https://www.museumtours.co.il/, on LinkedIn, or on Instagram, Twitter, or Parler using his handle @museumtoursil. Get in touch with Meir-Simchah Panzer on Twitter @meirsimchah.

Our theme music was arranged and performed by David Frankel (https://classicalguitarisrael.com/).

The cover art for this episode includes an image of an Ammonite fossil from Madagascar, by Antonov, on Wikimedia Commons.

Some great quotes from the episode:

Rabbi Sacks:

"Where I think I disagree with Richard is that Richard sees religion and science as inevitably in conflict, and I see them as two different things altogether. Science can tell us about the origin of life; religion tells us about the purpose of life; science explains the world that is; religion summons us to the world that ought to be.”

Rabbi Sacks:

"I think we agree on the integrity of science, on the power that it has given us, and the immense dignity it that it represents. Richard accepts that as a fact. I accept that's what the Bible means when it says God made us in His image. But nonetheless we both cherish science as one of the great human achievements. And it is my belief that we will always need a sense of that which is beyond us in order to never lose sight of human dignity."

Rabbi Sacks:

"The first lesson any philosophy student ever learns is facts are...