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  • Episode 15- Hiddur Olam: The Creative Torah System for Jewish futurist Living

    Episode 15- Hiddur Olam: The Creative Torah System for Jewish futurist Living

    The Jewish futurism Lab
    The Jewish futurism Lab
    Episode 15- Hiddur Olam: The Creative Torah System for Jewish futurist Living
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    In this episode, Mike unpacks Hiddur Olam, his creative Torah system and multi‑volume art book series that reimagines Genesis through Jewish futurism, design thinking, Mussar, and Kabbalah. Listeners will hear how weekly parsha study, visual storytelling, and spiritual practice come together as a framework for beautifying the world through creative Torah.

    Discover Hiddur Olam, a creative Torah system and illustrated book series that reimagines the first portions of Genesis as luminous encounters between humanity and the Divine. Mike Wirth shares how Torah study, design thinking, Mussar, and Kabbalah weave into a practical framework for Jewish futurist creativity and spiritual growth. Learn how weekly parsha art, reflective commentary, and a structured creative process became the backbone of a multi‑volume Hiddur Olam series and its upcoming companion workbook. This episode is for artists, educators, rabbis, and seekers who want to turn their own creative practice into a form of Torah learning and world‑beautifying action.

  • Episode 2: Jews Have Always Been futurists

    Episode 2: Jews Have Always Been futurists

    The Jewish futurism Lab
    The Jewish futurism Lab
    Episode 2: Jews Have Always Been futurists
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    In this episode, I make the case that Jewish futurism isn’t new at all. Long before rockets, algorithms, or AI, Jewish tradition was already asking future-oriented questions about survival, ethics, memory, and change. From Noah and Enoch to Babel, Joseph, exile, and Shabbat, this episode traces how Torah stories are structured around anticipating disruption, redesigning meaning, and passing responsibility forward to people we will never meet. Jewish futurism, I argue, isn’t about predicting the future. It’s about preparing us to meet it awake, accountable, and in relationship.

    You can read about this in more detail in my article A Brief History of Jewish futurism.

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