‘Severance,’ Working to Live, and Living to Work

Rabbis Michael Knopf and Jesse Olitzky are lifelong friends, pop culture fanboys, and lovers of all things Jewish. Join them every other week for a conversation about what’s going on in pop culture from a Jewish perspective and about Judaism through the lens of pop culture. Do you seek better work-life balance? Tired of taking […]

Rabbis Michael Knopf and Jesse Olitzky are lifelong friends, pop culture fanboys, and lovers of all things Jewish. Join them every other week for a conversation about what’s going on in pop culture from a Jewish perspective and about Judaism through the lens of pop culture.

Do you seek better work-life balance? Tired of taking your problems from home with you to the office? Sick of bringing work frustrations home with you at the end of the day, or constantly feeling “on-call”? ‘Severance’ might be for you! The new sci-fi/thriller/dark comedy series, streaming on AppleTV+, imagines a world in which people can undergo a procedure that completely separates their work-selves from their home-selves. But would such an extreme procedure offer the balance we seek? Or would it make our lives worse? Rabbis Knopf and Olitzky discuss this engrossing new show, and explore the provocative questions it raises about memory, identity, how we relate to work, and how we process grief.

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