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When We See You Again

By: Rachel Goldberg-Polin
Narrated by: Jon Polin, Rachel Goldberg-Polin
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Once upon a time, I was meandering down the road of life with my husband, Jon. It was a regular and beige life, and it worked. It was a warm beige. We felt, and were, blessed and lucky. Normal.

On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin's beloved twenty-three-year-old son, Hersh, was stolen from a music festival billed as a celebration of unity and love-and, in that moment, her life was forever separated into The Before and The After. Over the next eleven months, she and her husband, Jon, would work tirelessly-in public and behind the scenes-to secure the hostages' release, to breathe some humanity into the situation while they were experiencing relentless emotional and psychological torment. The power of her raw and fervent pleas soon made her the face of the hostage crisis. And when Hersh and five other captives were executed after surviving 328 days of violence and cruelty, she would also become the face of its ultimate cost.

In When We See You Again, Rachel pours her pain, love, and longing onto paper, giving voice to the broken among us, and reminding us that even when the world feels choked with darkness, light exists in a different way. How do we find it? Her own experience has been extreme, but at its essence, this is a universal story of trying to live with grief. It is a story of how we remember and how we persevere, of how we suffer and how we love.

'There are days when I break completely,' she writes. 'I have cried for an entire day straight. I didn't think it was physically possible, but the weeping never let up. That is a very long time to cry. I kept hoping I would run out of tears. And then there are days when there is a whisper of sun. Not out there in the sky. In me. In us.' Israel & Palestine Middle East
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Oct 7 changed every single one of us. Everyone has their own way of grief and pain. It doesn’t matter if we can related to each other’s pain. We are just all in this together.

Oct 7

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Amazing and heart breaking. An incredible impressive woman telling her devastating story. Important read/listen.

Heart Breaking and Beautiful

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That Rachel lets us in so fully to feel her grief, but also her love for her beautiful boy, is an absolute privilege. She gives us the opportunity to love him too - and to grieve him too. What a profound and moving book. Thank you, Rachel, for sharing this with us.

Heartbreaking yet Heartwarming

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Rachel exemplifies Jewish humanity. I say Jewish because it is the Jewish religion and practices that have helped form this woman. A woman who has plumbed the depths of agonising despair and come up with grace and exemplary unextinguished love. Never blaming. We can all learn here. Those at Davos who hate, those who will enjoy the anguish of the terrorised Jew can hang their heads in eternal shame at what has been created to destroy G-d's eternal people, who extend a hand in peace and have it blown off.

Poignant

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