Recorded live on Friday, May 23, 2026.

What would Jewish life look like if every one of us — born Jewish, bagels-and-lox Jewish, high-holidays-only Jewish — woke up one morning and chose it? On purpose?

On Shavuot, Rabbi Gellman traces a line from Ruth's declaration on a dusty road to the daily recitation of the Shema, asking what it truly means to be a Jew by Choice — and why that question has never mattered more. He also pauses before Shabbat to hold the tragedy in San Diego, and why Jews, of all people, cannot look away when a house of worship is attacked.

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