Rachel Goldberg-Polin
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968 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Sep
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book, we are trying to be sad.
But I would say to people, you know, you have to do what you're comfortable with.
I actually know someone who she said, I eat, I shower, I drink, I wear my leather shoes.
But before she leaves that morning, she lights a memorial candle.
And that's great.
I would never tell someone what they should or shouldn't do.
But I think that the danger of people saying, well, either I'm doing all or nothing, that's a really extreme approach.
Well, you see people sitting all over the place with candles, reading the book of Lamentations in giant groups.
On the ground.
Right, it's very much, let us help you get in the mood.
If you don't feel bad, we are going to try very hard to help you feel bad.
I will also tell you, you know, I have a friend whose daughter is not able to fast because she has some health issues.
And I remember her daughter saying to me, so I don't fast, but I'm not eating my favorite food.
So there are ways all of us can interpret if we want to acknowledge this day of national reckoning and national remembrance of calamitous things that have happened to the Jewish people throughout the millennia.
there are many options of how that can look.
And I also, by the way, Dan, you know, this is not just something that we do once a year.
There are pieces of remembering this destruction that we integrate into many different practices of Jewish life.
So for example, I mean, your happiest day of your life when you married your wife, right?
What happened at the very end of that ceremony, right before everyone screams mazel tov?
Right.
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