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Bava Batra 129 and 130 - The Language of Judaism

Season 23 Episode 129

Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 129 and 130, pose a difficult question about Halacha, or Jewish law. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explore this …

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Bava Batra 128 - Hope and Change

Season 23 Episode 128

Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 128, asks the question that has baffled psychologists for a very long while: can people really change? And if they do…

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Bava Batra 127 - The Benefit of the Doubt

Season 23 Episode 127

Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 127, delivers a small and sweet lesson about the mechanics of kindness. Why should we always believe good things we h…

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Bava Batra 126 - The Things We Leave Behind

Season 23 Episode 126

Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 126, raises a difficult question that begins with inheritance and sends us exploring the meaning of religious belief.…

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Bava Batra 123, 124, 125 - Blame It on Grandma

Season 23 Episode 123

Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 123, 124, and 125, tells a sordid and complicated tale of inheritance gone wrong. At its core is this vexing questio…

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Bava Batra 120, 121, 122 - The Secret Chord, with Peter Himmelman

Season 23 Episode 120

Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 120, 121, and 122, contain a charming discussion of Judaism's happiest days. One is the 15th of Av, the Jewish celeb…

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Bava Batra 119 - The Marrying Kind, with Faith Salie

Season 23 Episode 119

Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 119, delivers a direct warning for women not to marry too late in life. Faith Salie, author, actress, and panelist on…

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Bava Batra 116, 117, 118 - Childless

Season 23 Episode 116

Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 116, 117, and 118, find the rabbis engaged in a conversation about childlessness. Is God angry with those who choose…

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Bava Batra 113, 114, 115 - Alice Hoffman on Anne Frank

Season 23 Episode 113

Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 113, 114, and 115, continue the discussion of death, dying, and inheritance. Internationally acclaimed author Alice …

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Introducing Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair

Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair is an October 7th story, but one that begins not in 2023, but in October of 1894 with the arrest of French military off…

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