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The Jewish Calendar: A People in Time

Pragmatic Judaism··16 August 2026·7 min

About this episode

What if the Jewish calendar isn’t designed to keep track of time—but to keep a people together? In this episode, host Shai Davidai explores how a shared cycle of Shabbat, holidays, fasts, and seasons became one of Judaism’s most powerful continuity technologies. A story about synchronization, memory, belonging, and how a scattered people learned to replace territory with time.