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Tisha b'Av: The Bottom of the Calendar - with Rachel Goldberg-Polin
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1:00:52Now PlayingWhat does Tisha B'Av ask of us after October 7?
Tisha B'Av is the saddest date on the Jewish calendar, but Rachel Goldberg-Polin argues it also offers hope and opportunity. In a conversation shaped by the personal and collective trauma of October 7, she explains why Jewish tradition gathers centuries of loss onto a single day, why it compels us to look inward, and how mourning is meant to become the first step toward repair.
Rachel’s suggested readingThis Is Real and You Are Completely UnpreparedThe Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation by Rabbi Alan Lew
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In this episode:
- Why Tisha B'Av became Judaism's day of mourning
- The original national failure: The spies and the Promised Land,
- The centrality and importance of the Temples we can’t comprehend
- Sinat chinam and the danger of baseless hatred
- Why Jewish tradition looks inward after catastrophe
- How Tisha B'Av is observed and why the rituals matter
- Rav Kook's answer: from baseless hatred to baseless love
- Finding hope, repair, and "yet" after grief
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