Yahrzeit, Kaddish & the 17th of Tammuz

<p>Some episodes start light. This one starts with a candle. We begin with Jay’s yahrzeit for his mom, twelve years gone and still deeply missed, and the Rabbi walks us through what the anniversary of a death really means in Jewish tradition. From there we widen out to a fast day heavy with history and a piece of tech that might change how any of us learns Torah.</p><p>In this episode, we get into:</p><ul><li><p>What yahrzeit means and why we say Kaddish for eleven months, then every year after</p></li><li><p>The Rabbi’s own story of counting down the days, and the strange sadness when Kaddish ends</p></li><li><p>The five tragedies of the 17th of Tammuz and the start of the Three Weeks</p></li><li><p>Why you can get engaged during the Three Weeks but not married (and what that says about free will)</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.yochai.wiki/chat" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Yochai, the new AI tool that turns anyone into a Torah study partner</a></p></li></ul>