165: Sorry, Not Sorry
Israel Story
Israel Story
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
A never-aired Yom Kippur episode from before the war that asks what does it mean to be sorry?
Our end song is Lu Yehi ("Let It Be") performed by HaGashash HaHiver.
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| 0:00.0 | They did it again. Flower, instead of flowers, on my birthday. And 95 minutes late, but it's hard to leave when you've shared so much. Your postcode, your gluten intolerance. Then I saw it. 25% off your first Akado shop, plus free delivery. And I just knew I'd found the online supermarket of my dreams. Akado, life delivered. |
| 0:23.5 | Geographical restrictions, mined spend 60 pounds, and charges apply. Max saving 20 pounds, new customers only, |
| 0:28.8 | terms at Accardo.com. Exactly two years ago, in September 2020, we were in the final stages of working on an episode called Sorry Not Sorry, which we planned to release for Yom Kippoo. |
| 0:48.1 | I can't even remember exactly what it was, but a bunch of production hiccups made us decide to postpone the publication of the |
| 0:56.6 | episode by a week or two. |
| 0:59.1 | Then, of course, came October 7th. |
| 1:03.2 | Our focus naturally shifted. |
| 1:05.8 | We dove into our wartime Diaries series, and that Yom Kippur episode remained somewhat forgotten on the shelf. |
| 1:15.0 | But as Yom Kippur is, once again, upon us, we decided to dust off our never aired |
| 1:22.3 | 2023 episode and bring it to you as it was. In a way, the episode feels like a fossil, a relic of a |
| 1:31.7 | distant and saner time. And because it was recorded and edited in an entirely different reality, |
| 1:39.5 | hearing it now somehow only accentuates the craziness of our times. I don't want to pretend that it |
| 1:46.1 | harkens back to some nostalgic age of innocence. We all remember the turbulence of those times, |
| 1:52.7 | the judicial reform that gnawed at the core of Israeli democracy, the harsh civil discourse |
| 1:58.2 | and unrest in the streets, the mass demonstrations, the rising violence |
| 2:02.9 | in the West Bank and within the Israeli Arab population. |
| 2:06.7 | All that was the backdrop of those days. |
| 2:10.3 | But, and this is a big but, it was a time in which our Yom Kippul repentance was of a different nature. |
| 2:19.1 | After all, it was before the atrocities of October 7th, |
| 2:22.8 | and before tens of thousands of Gazans, |
| 2:26.1 | the vast majority of them civilian non-combatants were killed in a seemingly never-ending war. |
| 2:35.0 | So on this Yomki Poo of Tafshin Pai-Vav, or 2025, repentance and Cheshbo Nefesh feel, at least |
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