12. Tisha B'Av

It's time for Tisha B'Av, the Jewish day of mourning par excellence, the day that first of all commemorates the destruction of our temple in Jerusalem and then piles on every other tragedy in Jewish history. We're talking about how to mourn, how to heal, how to be broken and what comes next. In tribute to Tisha B'av's theme of a ruined structure, we've blown apart our usual terse style of inquiry and left our four questions as four piles of deconstructed rubble: 1. Are we actually sad what does it feel like to mourn on purpose on schedule are we faking it is this real grief. 2. Okay but what about a temple is the temple supposed to be our home would it feel like a home if we could make it again do we even want it to be our home what happens when you lose your home that you maybe didn’t even really want to begin with? 3. How do we understand blame responsibility collective guilt blaming the victim consequences a loss of coherence. 4. And but then what’s next what do you even do the day after things fall apart is it painful is it exhilarating can we get a little bit of aftercare?