Rachel Goldberg-Polin

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968 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Sep

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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor · The Ascendent Journey of The High Holidays - with Rachel Goldberg-Polin · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

I think, first of all, if people were not being Jewishly involved in a religious or spiritual way, and they wanted to retain just those days that again, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are called Ha Yamim no Raim, like the days filled with awe.

And if you were someone who a hundred years ago

Ago came to Pittsburgh or Chicago or Los Angeles or New York or Boston, you had to work all the time.

There was not the permissiveness there is now or understanding that there are different people who believe in different faiths and may need certain days off from work.

Everybody was working all the time, but there were people who said those days.

I am gonna make sure I'll work three hundred and sixty two days a year.

I'm not working those three days.

Mm-hmm.

And the second that Yom Kippur is over, I think it was very difficult in North American history to then go back to your non Jewish boss and say, I'm sorry, I have to go build a hut.

And I have to go sleep in it.

And I have to gather these interesting plant species and wave them around and go do special prayers.

And oh, and then eight days after that, I have to also take off another day because I have to go dance around with the Torah.

I think it is sociological and anthropological of what happened, just the reality of living in the diaspora as a faith that was.

not as understood and not just Judaism.

I mean, all different faiths struggled with how do you observe your faith in a new land where everyone's trying to fit in and it was very different than it is now, where there or and I don't even know what it's like now, but 20 years ago there was multiculturalism and everybody was so excited to celebrate everybody else's interesting holidays.

I don't know that that's still the case.

Okay.

So I think that that has a lot to do with it.

And also I do think that if somebody is not really very Jewishly connected and they decide to carve out the time, and I can only use my family as a child as my example, my parents were not religiously observant, but my father would take off those days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and we would go to shul.

And if the first

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