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Tisha b'Av: The Bottom of the Calendar - with Rachel Goldberg-Polin
· 59 min · Episode 534
Episode Tisha b'Av: The Bottom of the Calendar - with Rachel Goldberg-Polin
What 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 reading: This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The 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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