Vika Krieger

For breakfast today, I had a smoked salmon avocado toast.

This is Vika Krieger.

I brought one of my favorite books on the topic.

Oh, really?

So that you can see the title.

It's a book about how to describe God.

Oh, really?

Yeah, so it's like, this is the title.

That's great.

Well, so I grew up in Los Angeles primarily.

And I would say I definitely believed in a version of God as a kid, for sure.

That sounds not too different from the version of God that you described growing up, even though I grew up Jewish.

And so I grew up Orthodox Jewish.

which means on the very observant and very traditional end of the Jewish spectrum.

My parents got married when they were very young, like 19, early 20s, and divorced a year later.

I was born in that one-year period.

Wow.

My mom stayed in LA and my dad moved out and eventually landed in Israel.

And so my mom is what maybe you would just call like regular Orthodox or like centrist Orthodox.

And my dad is ultra Orthodox or you call like Haredi or Hasidic, like where they with the hat and the beard and the garb and all of that.