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Back to SearchSanhedrin 54 and 55 - Punishment and logic
Season 24 Episode 54
Today’s Talmud pages, Sanhedrin 54 and 55, raise a complicated question: Is punishment logical? Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to tackle this thorny …
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 52 and 53 - God in details
Season 24 Episode 52
Today’s Talmud pages, Sanhedrin 52 and 53, ponder what life was like in a world in which God's presence was truly and viscerally felt. Rabbi Dovid Ba…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 51 - Dead Languages
Season 24 Episode 51
Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 51, asks a question many of us have been pondering: Why spend all this time learning about laws and events that are si…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 50 - Justice and Compassion
Season 24 Episode 50
Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 50, delves into the four methods of execution prescribed by Jewish law—stoning, fire, sword, and strangulation—and the…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 49 - Hell is Other People
Season 24 Episode 49
Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 49, kicks things off with a wise bit of teaching: It's better to be cursed than to curse. Socrates himself would have …
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 47 and 48 - The Art of Grief
Season 24 Episode 47
Today’s Talmud pages, Sanhedrin 47 and 48, remind us that grief is a singular burden. A story from one of the Talmud's wisest rabbis gives us new ins…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 45 and 46 - To Believe or Not, with Josh Kross
Season 24 Episode 45
Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 45 and 46, cover various different aspects of the execution process, and even shares a specific process for the blasph…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 44 - Making History, with Dr. Tevi Troy
Season 24 Episode 44
Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 44, tells an eerie tale of a wise sage and an evil taxman who were each buried in the other's tomb. Dr. Tevi Troy, our…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 43 - The Tools of Execution, with Dr. Tevi Troy
Season 24 Episode 43
Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 43, raises an interesting point about the procedure of public executions. Dr. Tevi Troy, our very own Presidentischer …
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 42 - Dead Man Walking, with Sister Helen Prejean
Season 24 Episode 42
Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 42, begins a lengthy discussion of the death penalty. Sister Helen Prejean, a notable opponent of capital punishment, …
1 year, 4 months ago