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Back to SearchBava Batra 161 - The Birth of Emoji
Season 23 Episode 161
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 161, gives us what may very well be the first ever documented appearance of... emoji. Why did some rabbis sign their …
1 year, 6 months ago
Bava Batra 159 and 160 - Never Go Against the Family
Season 23 Episode 159
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 159 and 160, contain a ruling that the Talmud considers one of the most difficult cases of civil law. What can it te…
1 year, 6 months ago
Bava Batra 155, 156, 157, 158 - A Very Bava Batra Thanksgiving
Season 23 Episode 155
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 155, 156, 157, and 158, usher us into Thanksgiving. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain the strange but undeni…
1 year, 6 months ago
Bava Batra 154 - Progressives and Conservatives
Season 23 Episode 154
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 154, delivers a key lesson in political philosophy disguised as a meditation on inheritance. What's the real differen…
1 year, 6 months ago
Bava Batra 152 and 153 - Dressing for Death, and Life
Season 23 Episode 152
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 152 and 153, the rabbis continue to contemplate our wishes as we lay dying. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to talk a…
1 year, 6 months ago
Bava Batra 150 and 151 - Deathbed Decisions
Season 23 Episode 150
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 150 and 151, are a touching tribute to the sanctification of life. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain the con…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 149 - How to Repent
Season 23 Episode 149
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 149, begins with a heartbreaking scene of a father on his deathbed navigating halachic inheritance laws so that he co…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 148 - No Backsies
Season 23 Episode 148
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 148, asks a thorny question: What happens if someone, on their deathbed, promises to give away all their property but…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 147 - Any Way the Wind Blows
Season 23 Episode 147
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 147, finds the rabbis talking about... the wind, and how it sometimes blows this way and sometimes that, and sometime…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 145 and 146 - Don't Worry, Be Happy
Season 23 Episode 145
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 145 and 146, give us a quizzical passage trying to decipher the secret to happiness. How can we make sure we're alwa…
1 year, 7 months ago