Jul 9, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 13 segments
Welcome to a brand new month! In this special Rosh Chodesh series Podcast, host Aura Rosenblatt sits down with the profound Chana Kalmenson: poet, teacher of Jewish mysticism, and shlucha of Chabad of…
I feel like the challenge with Thomas is that it closes on a really difficult note, but that's a very strong contrast to the month of, which is a month that begins with very powerful grief.
In fact, the first day of opens up an even deeper dimension of grief than we had in the first two of the three weeks that started with the 17th of Thomas.
It starts the period of the nine days, which is an even more intense period of mourning to commemorate the destruction of the holy temple of the Bais HaMikdash.
And that culminates with the ninth above, of course, which is the date when the first and second holy temples in Jerusalem were destroyed.
darkness, this intense grief, this memory of the most profound destruction of us being banished from our homes, of us losing what is most precious to us.
And every kind of massacre and challenge that we've had and really period of this level of darkness is integrated into this day.
It's what might even be the religious Holocaust Memorial Day because the Holocaust spanned six years and the different dates that we've set or that different nations have set to commemorate it don't fit so perfectly within And this is about our story, our ancient story as a people, as people who, the Holocaust was not the first time this happened.
with our indigenous customs and our indigenous rituals and our inherited tradition that spans thousands of years is like a very kind of powerful anchoring.
And we can go into a little bit of what the actual backstory is and how it shows up and also the deeper meanings of what it is, but you have this radical transformation from the day of the greatest darkness and the greatest grief to the day that is called in the Mishnah, one of the most joyous days in the Jewish calendar.
It's a portal for us to be really go through our grief and then come out on the other side in a place of deeper joy and more profound love and greater light than anything we've ever experienced before.
I feel like the challenge with Thomas is that it closes on a really difficult note, but that's a very strong contrast to the month of, which is a month that begins with very powerful grief.
In fact, the first day of opens up an even deeper dimension of grief than we had in the first two of the three weeks that started with the 17th of Thomas.
It starts the period of the nine days, which is an even more intense period of mourning to commemorate the destruction of the holy temple of the Bais HaMikdash.
And that culminates with the ninth above, of course, which is the date when the first and second holy temples in Jerusalem were destroyed.
darkness, this intense grief, this memory of the most profound destruction of us being banished from our homes, of us losing what is most precious to us.
And every kind of massacre and challenge that we've had and really period of this level of darkness is integrated into this day.
It's what might even be the religious Holocaust Memorial Day because the Holocaust spanned six years and the different dates that we've set or that different nations have set to commemorate it don't fit so perfectly within And this is about our story, our ancient story as a people, as people who, the Holocaust was not the first time this happened.
with our indigenous customs and our indigenous rituals and our inherited tradition that spans thousands of years is like a very kind of powerful anchoring.
And we can go into a little bit of what the actual backstory is and how it shows up and also the deeper meanings of what it is, but you have this radical transformation from the day of the greatest darkness and the greatest grief to the day that is called in the Mishnah, one of the most joyous days in the Jewish calendar.
It's a portal for us to be really go through our grief and then come out on the other side in a place of deeper joy and more profound love and greater light than anything we've ever experienced before.
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