Rosh Hashanah
Jewish day of judgement preceding Yom Kippur (day of atonement), one of several Jewish New Years
Episodes
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#5492: 21 Shofar Blasts a Day: The Temple's Lost SoundscapeThe shofar wasn't just a Rosh Hashanah thing. In the Temple, horns sounded 21 times a day — marking work, worship, and water.Main topic -
#5468: Why Nobody Stops the Candy Bin GrazersA hand, a mouth, forward motion: what open-bin snacking at Mahane Yehuda reveals about norms nobody enforces anymore. -
#5421: Why Secular Israelis Still Fast on Yom KippurA majority of secular Israeli Jews fast on Yom Kippur. What the data say about how faith gets handed down — and how observance becomes a weapon. -
#5612: Who Keeps Working During Sukkot?An ideal of universal rest meets a city that doubles in size. Who kept the lights on during the pilgrim festivals? -
#5356: Torch Juggling in the Temple: Inside Sukkot's All-Night Water FestivalFifteen hours of torch juggling, nonstop music, and a rain ritual the Torah never commanded — inside the Second Temple's wildest celebration. -
#5152: Sinai's Level 4 Warning: What's Actually Left of ISISEgypt declared terrorism over in North Sinai in 2023. The NSC still rates the peninsula level four. What's actually left?