Jonah Ghosted God. It Did Not Go Well.

Jonah gets swallowed by a fish, and that is the part everybody remembers, but the real story is what happens after: Nineveh repents, Hashem forgives, and Jonah sits down under a plant and sulks about it.

In this episode, we get into:

• The kikayon, the plant that grows over Jonah and dies overnight, and the question God closes the book with about 120,000 people

• Why justice and mercy are not opposites, and why the Rabbi says everyone alive needs some measure of both

• How a tzaddik does teshuvah when he has not sinned, and what unreached potential has to do with it

• A murder trial in the news right now, the insanity defense, and the Talmud’s category of a shoteh

• Whether the right answer for someone who is already suffering is prison, execution, or therapy

• Jonah the seer, who knew Nineveh would come back for us, and what that has to do with Israel and Yahya Sinwar

• Why the Yom Kippur Mincha haftarah sells for thousands of dollars, and why you should stay in shul for it

If you usually go home after Musaf and come back for Neilah, this is the year to stick around for Mincha. Come sit with the hardest question in the machzor with us.