This is an incredibly moving piece from WNYC’s Radiolab: In Silence. Rather than their normal focus on science, this podcast focuses on the idea of silence in the universe, and in that silence where we might find God, and ultimately, faith. Cohost Robert Krulwich offers a reflection and meditation on this concept via two stories: the binding of Isaac upon the mount and the departure of Noah during the flood.
I thought it particularly fitting for Erev Yom Kippur, and at this particular station in my life. Larry and I had listened to this a few months ago, on one of our many treks back and forth to NJ, and I made a mental note at the time to listen to it at the next Yom Kippur, so we listened to it last night again.
It was refreshing, comforting, restoring.
An easy fast this evening, and may you be inscribed for another year.
