Show Notes
As the High Holidays approach, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove and Jon Frankel sit down with Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, to talk about grief, memory, faith, and her book When We See You Again. In a deeply personal conversation, Rachel reflects on the son she calls “the blessed ordinary,” the cruelty she now finds in the command to remember, and the question that remains before her: how do you keep moving through a tunnel when you cannot see where—or whether—it ends?
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