Before You Speak | Episode 45 | Are We Hungary Yet? Authoritarianism in the USA

I want you to be able to take the lead a little bit here because there's some significant Jewish holidays

already started.

Yeah.

Yeah, so I appreciated just a few minutes at the top to, I don't know, I feel like if I can ever spread awareness of, you know, the Jewish calendar and Jewish holidays, because, you know, I think people have probably heard of the holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

You know, many have not, but many also have.

And those are the two biggest holidays on the Jewish calendar.

The Jewish calendar is a 13-month calendar, so they come at different times every year.

But they are always eight days apart.

If you ask any Jewish person when Rosh Hashanah is next year, they don't know, by the way.

They have to Google it.

It's kind of a running meme on like...

Jewish Instagram, Jewstagram, whatever it's called.

So Rosh Hashanah was over the weekend, was on Saturday.

And that is the Jewish new year, quite literally.

Rosh Hashanah means head of the year.

And then Yom Kippur is the day of atonement.

But the period in between the two is very, very relevant.

And this is something I didn't know this until like 10 years ago.

Uh, you know, so that we're right now in the period called the days of awe.

And what happens in, in the religion is, uh, on Rosh Hashanah.

it is said that the Book of Life is opened, right? And there's a whole prayer that says that.

On Rosh Hashanah, we open the Book of Life, and during the Days of Awe, we hope to be inscribed in the Book of Life for the next year.

And on Yom Kippur, the Book of Life is closed.

So that's kind of like the big finish, right? We go to temple all day, we don't eat, we're like...

atoning, you know, kind of last minute, if we didn't make it in on days one through seven, you know, come on, man, let's get me in, get me in.