It's 5 p.m. on Friday, April 11th, here in New York City, as we wind down for Shabbat and continue

preparations for Pesach, which we will roll right into after Shabbat. It's midnight on Saturday, April

12th in Israel, as Israelis are already in the midst of their Shabbat. One housekeeping note, as many of you know, on Tuesday, May 13th,

I will be delivering the State of World Jury address at the 92nd Street Y.

If you're still interested in attending,

please visit the link in the show notes.

As for today's episode, we are not releasing a regular episode.

But please stay with me.

Some of you are listening to this on Monday, probably if you were in Israel and you only had one Seder and one day of Yom Tov.

Some of you are listening to it from across the diaspora, in which case you may not be listening to this until Monday night or Tuesday because you shouldn't

be listening to podcasts or recording them during Yom Tov, during the Khag.

Since releasing last Monday's episode with Rachel Goldberg, Poland, titled The Paradox of Passover

2025, we've heard from thousands of you, not an exaggeration, thousands of comments

and outreach through various channels. I've never seen one of our conversations touch people

like this one. Rachel really is a singular voice as a teacher and as a moral conscience.

Many of you told us you were moved to tears, often while listening in the middle of your day

in a crowded supermarket, shopping for the sater, or on a noisy train ride during your commute.

Some wrote to us that after listening, you immediately dashed out to buy lemons and yellow flowers for your sater table.

And that Rachel gave you ideas and most importantly inspiration for how to elevate at your sater table the cause of the hostages.

Regardless of the episode, we often hear from many of you that being part of our conversations

is an intimate experience that has sometimes sounded odd to us, but even in public with your

AirPods in your ears, I guess the moment can feel like a private experience tucked inside

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