Tag: worldbuilding

  • 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 10 – From Utopia to Conspiracy: The Secret Battle Over Jewish Futures

    Episode 10 – From Utopia to Conspiracy: The Secret Battle Over Jewish Futures

    The Jewish futurism Lab
    The Jewish futurism Lab
    Episode 10 – From Utopia to Conspiracy: The Secret Battle Over Jewish Futures
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    In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, Jewish futurist and we’ll explore early Jewish futurism, Zionist art, and media history through Theodor Herzl’s Altneuland, Ephraim Moses Lilien’s Zionist Art Nouveau, and Boris Schatz’s Bezalel School in Jerusalem. He contrasts these utopian blueprints and design prototypes with the antisemitic hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, showing how Jewish artists, writers, and educators used print, ritual objects, and visual culture to claim Jewish agency and design a different future.