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Back to SearchSanhedrin 12 and 13 - What are Rabbis For? with Rabbi Diana Fersko
Season 24 Episode 12
Today’s Talmud pages, Sanhedrin 12 and 13, remind us that the role of rabbis used to be very different than what most of might recognize today. Rabbi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sanhedrin 10 and 11 - Just as the Prophecy Foretold, with Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
Season 24 Episode 10
Today’s Talmud pages, Sanhedrin 10 and 11, ask a deeply troubling question: How come we no longer have prophets hearing and conveying the word of God…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sanhedrin 9 - Double the Kindness, with Erica Pelman
Season 24 Episode 9
Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 9, informs us that those of us who rush to help someone do a mitzvah are rewarded themselves as well. Erica Pelman, th…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sanhedrin 8 - Sweat the Small Stuff, with Sivan Rahav-Meir
Season 24 Episode 8
Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 8, introduces us to one of the most popular idioms in contemporary Hebrew, teaching us that we should be as diligent w…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sanhedrin 7 - Inner Space, with Josh Kross
Season 24 Episode 7
Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 7, argues that when people love each other, they can make do with very little physical space. Producer Josh Kross join…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sanhedrin 5 and 6 - Should We Ever Compromise?
Season 24 Episode 5
Today’s Talmud pages, Sanhedrin 5 and 6, raise a fascinating question: Why should we ever compromise? After all, if justice is a divine quality, shou…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sanhedrin 3 and 4 - Holding Them Accountable
Season 24 Episode 3
Today’s Talmud pages, Sanhedrin 3 and 4, deliver a meditation on jurisprudence. What are we moderns getting so wrong about justice and the law? And h…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sanhedrin 2 - Introducing Tractate Sanhedrin, with Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
Season 24 Episode 1
Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 2, kicks off a brand new tractate, and a real page-turner at that. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain what we m…
1 year, 6 months ago
Bava Batra 176 - Bidding Farewell to Tractate Bava Batra, with Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
Season 23 Episode 176
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 176, brings us to the end of one of the Talmud's longest and most demanding tractates. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us…
1 year, 6 months ago
Bava Batra 175 - I Have Become Small
Season 23 Episode 175
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 175, warns us that people will always try to make themselves appear poorer than they are so as to receive a bit more …
1 year, 6 months ago