Stoic Strategies for Coping with the Kosher Ice Cream Truck (Aurelius – Meditations 2:1)

The Stoic Jew

Synopsis: Today’s episode focuses on a practical application of Stoic techniques to one of the banes of my existence: the kosher ice cream truck, and its daemonic song. If you, too, have been subjected to this brutal strain and have employed your own successful coping strategies, please share them with me. As you’ll hear in my words and tone, this poses a real challenge for my own peace of mind.

Pure Torture:
- click here to hear the kosher ice cream truck song (but don’t say I didn’t warn you)

Related Episodes:
- Cold Showers, Complaining, and How We Cause Our Own Suffering (Epictetus – Enchiridion 5,20; Aurelius – Meditations 4:7)
- Mishlei 18:8 - Mishlei on Complaining (Part 1: Translation and Questions)
- Mishlei 18:8 - Mishlei on Complaining (Part 2: Ideas and Answers)

Related Articles:
- The Month of Av: Unlucky or Misunderstood? (Part 2 of 2)
Sources:
- Tehilim 91:1-7
- Aurelius, Meditations 2:1
- Mishlei 18:8; 26:22
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Stoic texts:
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Letters from a Stoic Master (Seneca)
The Discourses of Epictetus
The Enchiridion (Handbook) of Epictetus
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