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Nazir 52
Season 17 Episode 52
Today’s Talmud page, Nazir 52, discusses the impurity of creeping animals, and Leviticus 11 29 and 30 tells us exactly which eight creatures they ref…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nazir 51
Season 17 Episode 51
Today’s Talmud page, Nazir 51, discusses the ways that a dead body decomposes in different types of coffins. Unorthodox co-host Mark Oppenheimer join…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nazir 50
Season 17 Episode 50
Today’s Talmud page, Nazir 50, asks a question that starts out as purely mathematical and veers into deep spiritual and moral territory: How do we me…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nazir 48 and 49
Season 17 Episode 48
Today’s Talmud pages, Nazir 48 and 49, tell us an amusing yet instructive story about teaching styles, and how one professor's methods can be vexatio…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nazir 46 and 47
Season 17 Episode 46
Today’s Talmud pages, Nazir 46 and 47, discusses how one can and cannot shave their head. To get a better sense of the rules, producer Josh Kross cal…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nazir 45
Season 17 Episode 45
Today’s Talmud page, Nazir 45, warns us against defiling sacred spaces. But what makes a space sacred? Isn't God everywhere, and doesn't that make al…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nazir 44
Season 17 Episode 44
Today’s Talmud page, Nazir 44, kicks things off with a gruesome account of body parts and their proper burial. Author Gavriel Savit joins us to expla…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nazir 43
Season 17 Episode 43
Today’s Talmud page, Nazir 43, asks the ridiculous question of whether a Nazir can be punished twice if they touch two dead bodies. To further explor…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nazir 41 and 42
Season 17 Episode 41
Today’s Talmud pages, Nazir 41 and 42, teach us that positive Mitzvot override negative ones every time. Comic book legend Jordan B. Gorfinkel, autho…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nazir 39 and 40
Season 17 Episode 39
Today’s Talmud pages, Nazir 39 and 40, discusses the questions of when a person dyes their hair. Author and editor Lisa Ann Sandell and Rabbi Dovid B…
3 years, 3 months ago