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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from different times in Jewish history on different dates, not on the 9th of Av, but that are calamitous and that are read.
And those are stories about the Crusades and about the pogroms and even about the Nazis.
And actually, Sohar has put together a booklet of keynote of these poetic elegies from the last couple of years.
And there's a really beautiful, haunting one
that was written by members of Kibbutz Be'eri about the horrors and the trauma and the terror and the destruction and the before and after that Kibbutz Be'eri has experienced.
So I encourage people to check that out.
Because we are trying to really make ourselves not be happy.
It's a day of mourning.
So there are things that we don't do.
We don't eat.
We don't drink.
We don't shower.
We don't put on lotion, perfume.
We don't wear leather.
It's considered, you know, a real luxury comfort item.
We don't even say, hi, how are you?
Because what do you mean?
I'm not well.
It's a morning day and we don't learn beautiful parts of Torah.
So you are permitted to learn the book of Job, let's say, which is a really rough, hard passage.
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