#84 To Stand and Sing in Witness (with Ariel Burger)

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My guest today is Ariel Burger: scholar, artist, poet, musician, rabbi, professor, nonprofit leader, and former student of Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel.
Ariel is an incredibly playful, creative, and devoted servant of the public good. He is the author of Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom. Elie Wiesel was perhaps one of the most important voices for the power of memory and witness to nourish and protect the parts of our lives that are most important for who we are as a species. His work stands as a warning about who we become if we are unwilling to face the fears and underlying forces that shape us, and also a celebration of who we can become if we're willing to stand in witness.
Through The Witness Institute, Ariel carries on that lineage of helping people remember where we come from and what we've been through. His work awakens us to generations of suffering and also invites us to receive the generations of gifts and heirlooms we’ve inherited. It’s from this stance that we can enter true boundary-crossing dialogue with the capacity to learn, collaborate and grow as opposed to the impulse to defeat, dominate, and destroy.
I for one want to live in the kind of world that Ariel and his colleagues, mentors, students, and community members are helping to imagine for us. Dig in and enjoy!
Connect with Ariel:
ArielBurger.com
witnessinstitute.org
Read Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom
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instagram.com/arielisdrawing
linkedin.com/in/ariel-burger-a5a4597
twitter.com/arielburger

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