Vika Krieger

And part of it was also this learning journey that actually Judaism itself

I mean, and by the way, so does Christianity and Islam.

Like, they have these ancient embodiment mindfulness traditions that have been sort of sanitized in a post-enlightenment sort of rationalist Western European world for Judaism and Christianity in particular.

So I just kind of wanted to bring all these things together.

And so I was like, oh, like, I'm going to like...

do stuff like this, you know, in my living room.

And like, I think there are like a lot of people who like grow up more progressive and they're kind of wary to do sort of radical things in a religious space because they're like, oh, well, that's not authentic and that's not real or that's not OK.

And I'm just like,

dude, I grew up in the Orthodox world.

I know the emperor has no clothes like over there also, right?

Orthodox Judaism is just as constructed as whatever we could construct as well.

And so I think there is this conception, especially from people who grew up outside the Orthodox world,

Moses got the Torah at Mount Sinai and then, like, passed it down and, like, basically was living as an Orthodox Jew.

Like, Moses had those, like, side locks and a black hat and a beard, you know.

And then, like, Judaism had been practiced like that all the way down to Orthodox Jews today.

And anything more progressive was, like, a deviation.

But, like, I guarantee you if Moses came alive today and walked into an Orthodox synagogue, he'd be like, what the fuck is this?

Like, what religion is this?

This is not the religion I got at Sinai.

Right.