Rabbi Scott Kahn on Being in Israel for Hamas Attacks

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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For Rabbi Scott Kahn, Oct. 7 was a holy day, the Sabbath. He went to an early morning service at his synagogue and standing outside for a moment, he saw something strange. “We suddenly heard booms overhead in our city of Ramat Beit Shemesh. So we looked up, and we saw smoke just randomly. It wasn’t a plane. It was just like bursts of smoke,” he tells The Daily Signal. Soon, he heard about how his loved ones were affected, including his son-in-law in the army reserves, who was called up to serve near Gaza. Kahn heard about one distant family member who was shot, but who had survived by hiding in a ditch. In Sderot, another family member escaped to a bomb shelter with her three children “less because of the rockets and more because there were terrorists roaming the streets of Sderot looking for Jews to kill.” In Kahn’s full interview for “The Daily Signal Podcast,” he discusses the spiritual significance of Oct. 7 to Jews this year, how he and other Israelis are responding after the attacks, and what his hope for the future is. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal podcast for Friday, October 20th. I'm Kate Trinco. Today I speak
0:10.8	with Rabbi Scott Khan, who lives near Jerusalem about what it was like on October 7th when
0:15.6	Hamas attacked. Stay tuned for our conversation right after this.
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1:08.7	Today I'm joined by Rabbi Scott Khan. He is the CEO of Jewish Coffee House and also host of the
1:14.7	Orthodox Conundrum podcast and the co-host of Intimate Judaism. He also has a sub-stack, Orthodox
1:21.3	Conundrum commentary. Rabbi Scott Khan used to be a dean at a Yashiva which is a Jewish university
1:27.7	and he moved to Israel in 1996 where he now lives with his wife Alisa and their seven children.
1:34.0	And for more personal background here I was able to meet Scott, his wife and some of their
1:39.5	lovely children earlier this year. I was in Israel on a trip for Catholic writers that was organized
1:45.3	by the Philist project and Scott and his family were kind enough to host a few of us for a
1:50.6	traditional Shabbat dinner. It was very gracious. You welcomed us into your home, got us to a chance
1:56.1	to experience all those beautiful traditions. And of course for Jews they celebrate the Sabbath
2:04.0	and curse me if I'm wrong here but it's Friday evening to Saturday evening and Saturday evening
2:08.5	and they take it very seriously. So that was really, we're going to talk a little bit more about
2:14.4	that but that was really fun to be there to get a talk to your family and really get an experience
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