Sep 20, 2026 · 31 min · 9 segments
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2423592/fan_mail/new Marrying off a child cracks something open. In the middle of the joy there's a quieter truth: you are being asked to let go. This episode is about…
Esther FarkovitsHost
And then it's not about avoiding those moments, right? Not like I could tie my kids to a chair and say, I want you to be safe.
And in terms of specifically, if you want to talk about the army, I would never have moved to Israel if my whole point of being was to only stay safe.
Obviously history shows as a Jew, it's not the solution, but you know, people have lied to themselves or lived throughout, I don't know, 50, 60 years of quiet, right? A hundred years of quiet, but that's not the point of life.
And if I had to compare two ways of peacing out, if you will, the one way is my ancestor way, or my ancestors were unfortunately waiting in line to get into the showers of Auschwitz.
And then we have other groups of Jewish people who were killed in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising or in the Irgun.
And if you're going to go then why not go doing what matters and defending your people? And again, we all want to live long lives.
In fact, we just got out of Rosh Hashanah and we said, and that really struck me.
The Hashem that we worship, we know there's only one God, but at least the version of religion, if you will, that we subscribe to is Hashem, the divinity that loves life.
Right here, life, two feet on the ground, breakfast, coffee, lunch, laughter.
Versus obviously other religions that either glorify the afterlife or worse, glorify death of this world to get to the afterlife.
And then it's not about avoiding those moments, right? Not like I could tie my kids to a chair and say, I want you to be safe.
And in terms of specifically, if you want to talk about the army, I would never have moved to Israel if my whole point of being was to only stay safe.
Obviously history shows as a Jew, it's not the solution, but you know, people have lied to themselves or lived throughout, I don't know, 50, 60 years of quiet, right? A hundred years of quiet, but that's not the point of life.
And if I had to compare two ways of peacing out, if you will, the one way is my ancestor way, or my ancestors were unfortunately waiting in line to get into the showers of Auschwitz.
And then we have other groups of Jewish people who were killed in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising or in the Irgun.
And if you're going to go then why not go doing what matters and defending your people? And again, we all want to live long lives.
In fact, we just got out of Rosh Hashanah and we said, and that really struck me.
The Hashem that we worship, we know there's only one God, but at least the version of religion, if you will, that we subscribe to is Hashem, the divinity that loves life.
Right here, life, two feet on the ground, breakfast, coffee, lunch, laughter.
Versus obviously other religions that either glorify the afterlife or worse, glorify death of this world to get to the afterlife.
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