Chapter 37: Righteous For One’s Generation?

Tov! A Podcast About ”The Good Place” and Jewish Ideas

On The Good Place, the group arrives at the Good Place and encounters Gwendolyn and the Good Place committee, and Tahani tries to help Janet and Jason deal with the revelation about their prior relationship. On the podcast, Leora Kling Perkins and Jon Spira-Savett explore, apply, and wonder about the Talmudic concept of “righteous in one’s generation”, which is initially suggested in a discussion judging Noah’s action in the terrible world that preceded the biblical Flood story. If standards really are relative to the times, is there a way to know how demanding they should be? Click here for show notes.