Aaron Bergman

Oct 4, 2024 | thejewishnews.com | Aaron Bergman

We will continue to sit with our pain and sorrow, not knowing when it will end. But it will end, and we will rise up and dance again. Jewish tradition has a series of guidelines and steps that helps mourners through the initial, overwhelming and surreal pain of first losing a loved one to the period at the end of a year, when they can once again begin to live meaningfully and joyfully.

Sep 11, 2024 | thejewishnews.com | Aaron Bergman

Parshat Ki Tetze: Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19; Isaiah 54:1-10. One of the criticisms of the Torah is that it is poorly constructed as a work of literature, and, therefore, inferior to religious works that were written after it. Critics point to a narrative that is mostly chronological but interspersed with random laws. I believe they are missing the beautiful structure underlying the Torah, one that sustains Judaism to our own day.

Jul 18, 2023 | forum.effectivealtruism.org | Peter Wildeford |James Ozden |John Salter |Aaron Bergman

Hi everyone! I’ll be doing an Ask Me Anything (AMA) here. Feel free to drop your questions in the comments below. I will aim to answer them by Monday, July 24. Who am I? I’m Peter. I co-founded Rethink Priorities (RP) with Marcus A. Davis in 2018. Previously, I worked as a data scientist in industry for five years. I’m an avid forecaster. I’ve been known to tweet here and blog here. What does Rethink Priorities do?

Jun 21, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Ben Pace |Nina Rimsky |Aaron Bergman |Joseph Van Name

Epistemic status: This is a pretty detailed hypothesis that I think overall doesn’t add up to more than 50% of my probability mass on explaining datapoints like FTX, Leverage Research, the LaSota crew etc., but is still my leading guess for what is going on. I might also be really confused about the whole topic.

Mar 17, 2023 | thejewishnews.com | Aaron Bergman

Power chords, weird imagery and drums that went right through. I was a pudgy, husky clothes, glasses-wearing nerd. It was the sound of how to transcend a boring and mundane life. I know the title of this article is kind of surprising, and if you don’t know me, sounds like the beginning of a joke. Even if you do know me, it might sound funny. I am a middle-aged rabbi who teaches meditation, does yoga and is, on the exterior at least, pretty calm, if not placid.