Carrying Faith In Our Pockets

In this week's episode, Rabbi Oren Hayon takes us to Belmonte, a small town in northeastern Portugal where crypto-Jews carried tiny pocket mezuzot rather than risk a public sign of Jewish life during the Inquisition. From there, he moves to the Israelites at Mount Sinai and the story of the golden calf and to our own age of war, anxiety, and uncertainty, inviting us to ask what we’re carrying that weighs us down—and what small reminders of faith and courage we can tuck into our pockets instead.