Sanhedrin 106 - Us and the Pig

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Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 106, dive deep into the story of Balaam, the wicked prophet who set out to curse the Jews and ended up blessing them instead. Courtney Hazlett, Rabbi Diana Fersko, and Josh Kross, the hosts of Tablet's How to Be a Jew podcast, are joined by Jordan Rosenblum, the author of the award-winning book Forbidden: A 3000-Year History of Jews and the Pig, to discuss about how this animal became such a strong and problematic part of Jewish identity. Why is it that sometimes it's the things that are least like us that define us? Listen and find out.

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Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 106, dive deep into the story of Balaam, the wicked prophet who set out to curse the Jews and ended up blessing them instead. Courtney Hazlett, Rabbi Diana Fersko, and Josh Kross, the hosts of Tablet's How to Be a Jew podcast, are joined by Jordan Rosenblum, the author of the award-winning book Forbidden: A 3000-Year History of Jews and the Pig, to discuss about how this animal became such a strong and problematic part of Jewish identity. Why is it that sometimes it's the things that are least like us that define us? Listen and find out.

2025-04-02 30 min
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