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Nedarim 16
Season 16 Episode 16
Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 16, raises one of Judaism's most central questions: Do we keep the Mitzvot, or commandments, because they're beneficial …
3 years, 7 months ago
Nedarim 15
Season 16 Episode 15
Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 15, asks whether you can take a vow on something that is already prohibited to you. To discuss this further, we are join…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nedarim 14
Season 16 Episode 14
Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 14, launches a meditation on vows, intentions, sleep, and speech. Commemorating the second yahrzeit of the late, great R…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nedarim 12 and 13
Season 16 Episode 12
Today’s Talmud pages, Nedarim 12 and 13, offer a moving meditation on the significance of anniversaries. Why do we bother with birthdays? Why light c…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nedarim 10 and 11
Season 16 Episode 10
Today’s Talmud pages, Nedarim 10 and 11, warns us against taking unnecessary vows and practicing needless restraint. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us t…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nedarim 9
Season 16 Episode 9
Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 9, gives us a master class in personal productivity. Stephanie Butnick joins us to explain why Hillel the Elder was a mo…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nedarim 8
Season 16 Episode 8
Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 8, helps us find some inspiration to do good deeds. Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone joins us to talk about the Hakhel, an anc…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nedarim 7
Season 16 Episode 7
Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 7, kicks things off with an amusing story about a man who spoke in a confusing way leading his peers to be uncertain whi…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nedarim 5 and 6
Season 16 Episode 5
Today’s Talmud pages, Nedarim 5 and 6, warn us that if you don't speak your mind clearly, it's like you never spoke your mind at all. But how to spea…
3 years, 7 months ago
Take One: Nedarim 3 and 4
Season 16 Episode 3
Today’s Talmud pages, Nedarim 3 and 4, dive right into the question of a special category of vow: The Nazirite Vow. Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern joins us…
3 years, 7 months ago