Podcast: Dovid Margolin on the Rebbe’s Campaign for a Moment of Silence

This Week’s Guest: Dovid Margolin

On April 27, 2019, the last day of Passover, a vicious anti-Semite entered the Chabad of Poway synagogue and started shooting. Before being stopped, he murdered one worshipper and injured several others, including the congregation’s rabbi, Yisroel Goldstein.

Speaking to the press after the attack, Rabbi Goldstein said something remarkable. In the wake of the chaos and violence swirling around him, this ḥasidic rabbi suggested that a national response to the shooting should include establishing a daily moment of silence in American public schools in which “children can start the day pausing and thinking, ‘Why am I created? Why am I here? And what am I going to do?’”