If history has always been written by the victors, and anyone with AI can now rewrite it, how do we figure out what actually happened? And does anybody really go looking for the truth, or do we mostly go looking for proof of what we already believe?
In this episode, we get into:
The great man theory vs. Tolstoy, and why the Rabbi thinks timing is the real reason we remember the Baal Shem Tov
Why memorizing dates kills history, and the Harkness classroom that skips it
Post-truth: an Elizabeth Holmes documentary built to steer you, and the ChatGPT pumpkin that only knew what ChayaLeah had told it
The Rabbi’s honest admission about reading the other side of history (spoiler: he isn’t interested)
Torah as a baseline for truth, Rambam’s thirteen principles, and the Talmud’s test of character: your cup, your pocket, and your anger
The period of history each of us would visit, from Jesus to the Alter Rebbe’s court to the Montreal Canadiens of the 1960s
We started with truth and history and ended with the Pocket Rocket. That’s how this show goes.
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