Podcast Episodes

Shevuot 19 - Unawares

Season 26 Episode 19

Today’s Talmud page, Shevuot 19, concerns itself with a real brain-twister, a puzzle about what happens when there are two paths, one pure and one im…

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Shevuot 17 and 18 - Prohibited, Period with Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin

Season 26 Episode 17

Today’s Talmud pages, Shevuot 17 and 18, find the rabbis discussing the prohibition on having intercourse with a menstruating woman. Rabbi Dovid Bash…

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Shevuot 15 and 16 - Should We Stop Saying Tehillim for the Sick? with Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin

Season 26 Episode 15

Today’s Talmud pages, Shevuot 15 and 16, raise a difficult challenge, claiming the one must not recite any incantations in an effort to heal the sick…

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Shevuot 14 - The Forbidden Mountain

Season 26 Episode 14

Today’s Talmud page, Shevuot 14, warns us against climbing atop the Temple Mount, lest we accidentally defile its holiness. But if that's the case, w…

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Shevuot 13 - A Tale of Two Goats

Season 26 Episode 13

Today’s Talmud page, Shevuot 13, discusses one of the Torah's strangest rituals, one involving two goats on Yom Kippur. How does sacrificing one and …

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Shevuot 12 - Scapegoat Blues, with Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin

Season 26 Episode 12

Today’s Talmud page, Shevuot 12, discusses the two goats offered up on Yom Kippur, one sacrificed and the other pushed off a cliff into the wildernes…

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Shevuot 10 and 11 - Feeding the Hungry

Season 26 Episode 10

Today’s Talmud pages, Shevuot 10 and 11, explain what was done with the leftovers animals in the Temple, those fit to be sacrificed but never used. W…

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Shevuot 8 and 9 - Mother's Day

Season 26 Episode 8

Today’s Talmud pages, Shevuot 8 and 9, raise one of the most difficult questions to ever face the rabbis: Why is a woman giving birth considered a si…

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Shevuot 7 - Atonement Payment Plan

Season 26 Episode 7

Today’s Talmud page, Shevuot 7, introduces us to a very special category of sins, those we enter into fully aware of what we're doing yet somehow los…

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Shevuot 6 - "They Keep Dying on Me", with Dr. Tevi Troy

Season 26 Episode 6

Today’s Talmud page, Shevuot 6, finds the rabbis talking about what happens when you compare two great kings. Dr. Tevi Troy, our very own Presidentis…

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