Take One Daf Yomi

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Sukkah 18 and 19, teach us that there's nothing more whole, or holier, than a broken home. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to talk the symbolism of the sukkah, and what a discussion about skylights and purity can teach us about the world and our place in it. How have today's pages of Talmud inspired Leonard Cohen? Listen and find out.

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Sukkah 16 and 17, spin a technical discussion of fabrics into a breathtaking lesson on compassion. Rabbi Sari Laufer joins us to talk about the beauty of Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat after Tisha B'Av, and how it guides us to comfort. What can we humans do to nudge God from the quality of justice to the quality of mercy? Listen and find out.

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 15, teaches us a useful life lesson: If you want anything done, do it yourself. We remember the late Rav Adin Steinsaltz, who passed away last year, and his extraordinary contribution to making the Talmud accessible to all. What did Rav Steinsaltz learn from his great teacher, the late Lubavitcher Rebbe? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 14, asks a tough and seminal question: Is a sukkah a home? Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern joins us to discuss this question, and why the answer is particularly resonant in times of uncertainty and anxiety. Why did so many Americans turn to home improvement shows during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and what does it have to do with Sukkot? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 13, gets into the nitty gritty of Sukkah construction. Author Joshua Foer was intrigued by all those minute instructions, so he invited architects from all over the world to interpret them, with the best and brightest displaying their works at Sukkah City, a pop-up installment in downtown Manhattan. How do modern designers read the Talmud's very ancient blueprints? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Sukkah 11 and 12, raise a thorny question: why, exactly, do we build those little huts on Sukkot? Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us with a mystical teaching about the holiday's true meaning, and how it captures the dramatic trajectory of the Jewish people's relationship with God. So, are we even supposed to build actual sukkot on Sukkot? Listen and find out.

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Sukkah 9 and 10, dive into everyone's favorite Sukkot tradition: decorating the sukkah. Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal joins us to talk about this tradition, and how the symbolism of the holiday's customs help make it so meaningful. Is a picture of Lady Gaga an appropriate sukkah decoration? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 8, inspires us to think about building sukkot in non-traditional ways and in unexpected places. Maital Friedman joins us to tell the story of living in Uganda and having to cut down trees to build her family a sukkah for the holiday. How did her local hosts react? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 7, lets it be known that one of the walls of the sukkah is called the wall of laughter. Why? Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to shed light on the connection between Sukkot and humor, and why Jews have always been good about mixing tragedy with a bit of laughter. What, exactly, is so hilarious about watching someone slip on a banana peel? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 6, gives us useful units of measurements based on...fruits and vegetables? Nomi Kaltmann joins us to explain the meaning of the Seven Species, and how they came to be used as yardsticks. What kind of unit of measurement is an olive? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Sukkah 4 and 5, teaches us that the dimensions of the sukkah have to do with... the Ark of the Covenant? Professor Richard Hidary joins us to explain the connection, and what it has to teach us today. What does Noah have to do with the holiday of Sukkot? Listen and find out.

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Sukkah 2 and 3, introduce us to Tractate Sukkah. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us with a lesson about making things real, and about the true meaning of the holiday of Sukkot. Why do we start building our Sukkah immediately after the Yom Kippur fast ends? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 88, brings us to the end of Tractate Yoma. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to teach us how Yom Kippur is really a sophisticated time machine, and what the tractate we've just concluded was really about. How did Yoma take us on a journey in time? Listen and find out.

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 87, tells us a rip-roaring story that's really a wise teaching about reconciliation and asking for forgiveness. Rabbi Shmuel Hain joins us to discuss the Talmud's legal and anecdotal approach to saying you're sorry. What can we learn from two feuding rabbis about how to go ahead and patch things up? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 86, reminds us of the tremendous power our words have to do everything from wage war to appeal to God. The Tikvah Fund's Eric Cohen joins us to revisit some of the greatest speeches in Jewish and world history, and tell us what a great oration can do. Why are we still moved by Ruth's plea? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 84 and 85, ask a poignant question: How does divine forgiveness work? Does it just arrive each year, on Yom Kippur, requiring little action on our part? Or must we earn it? Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier joins us to parse this deep theological conundrum, and explain what the fierce Talmudic debate it inspired can still teach us today. How did the nature of absolution change once the Temple was destroyed? Listen and find out.

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 82 and 83, deliver an eerie passage about searching for survivors amidst the wreckage of a collapse, calling to mind the recent disaster in Surfside. Tablet senior writer Armin Rosen reports from the ground in Miami, telling us about how the community struggles to help survivors and comfort the bereaved in these tragic times. What was it like commemorating the fast day of 17 Tamuz while search and rescue operations were still in progress? Listen and find out.

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 81, tells a delightful story of a town that giddily drank brine on Yom Kippur, believing that pickle juice didn't exactly count as a beverage. Cookbook author and Jewish food maven Liz Alpern joins us to talk all things pickled, and walk us through the intricacies of brining. So were our ancestors correct in gulping down the sour stuff on their fasting day? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 80, kicks things off with a discussion of impure foods that soon blooms into a crucial life lesson: Keep things small. How has Judaism's affinity for the manageable and human-scaled help it survive? And what can this attitude teach us in the age of scaling up, going viral, and growing too big to fail? Listen and find out.

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 79, makes one important distinction: There are fixed, fancy meals, the rabbis tell us, and then there's casual meals. Adam Chandler, author of the definitive book on fast food in American culture, joins us to sing the praises of eating on the go, and how it contributes to a more open, democratic society. Were the Israelites the world's first fast food aficionados? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 77 and 78, give us a dazzling bit of poetic imagery, describing a river that flows forth from the Holy of the Holies, getting stronger and stronger as we go along. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain this mystical body of water, and the immense meaning it ought to have in the daily life of each and every one of us. How can this river explain the meaning of our relationship with God? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 75 and 76, ask the question we've all at one point or another contemplated: What do you do when you're feeling blue? One rabbi says keep a stiff upper lip; another advises talking it out. Nunzio Gubitosa, a psychoanalyst who teaches at Hebrew Union College, joins us to talk about the talking cure, its origins, and why we still need it today. What did a year of living with social distancing do to our need for therapy? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 74, finds the rabbis in an aesthetic sort of mood, opining on why looking at your food contributes to the enjoyment of the meal. How might we use this insight in everyday life? And how might a well-set dinner table elevate the soul? Listen and find out.

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 73, mentions the Urim and Thummim, the gems affixed to the breastplate of the High Priest. Rabbi Jason Rubenstein of Yale joins us to explain how the stones found their way to the school's famous motto, and what it can teach us about the institution's academic philosophy. Does Lux et Veritas still ring true today? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 72, gets right down to business by asking the one question that matters most: Why study Torah at all? Former Disney Channel star turned weekly parsha podcaster, Raviv Ullman, joins us to talk about his unorthodox career trajectory and the things he learned when he started thinking seriously about the Torah. Were the rabbis right to insist we need to fear God? Listen and find out.

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 70 and 71, point out an unlikely discrepancy: The Yom Kippur services performed by the High Priest actually diverge from their biblical description in one small but important way. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin returns to explain why the Talmud, usually so meticulous in following the teachings of the Torah to the letter, admits this one change, and what it can teach us about worship and teshuva. When exactly may the High Priest enter the Holy of the Holies? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 68 and 69, introduce us to the Ish Iti, the Man of Time, the mystery person of the Yom Kippur ritual. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to talk about this figure, and how understanding his role in the holiest day of the year gives us insight into what Judaism asks of each one of us. Why should we want to be more like the Ish Iti and less like the High Priest? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 67, teaches us the difference between those commandments that are obvious, like the prohibition on murder, and those that aren't, like the prohibition on eating pork. Rabbanit Leah Sarna joins us to explain this distinction, and what it can teach us about the mechanics of religious life. Would we still continue to practice Judaism if for some reason we no longer believed in God? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 66, reminds us of the sheer power of language, a power on full display when the Kohen Gadol entered the Holy of Holies and uttered the explicit name of God. To reflect on what words can do, we bring you a conversation with poet Christian Wiman that aired on our podcast Unorthodox, where he discussed how some words, when written or said in just the right way, can move us in ways we didn’t think possible. How and why does language connect us to the divine? Listen and find out.

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 65, asks what happens if some money is put aside for sacrificial use and is then stolen or lost before being miraculously retrieved. Does it count towards next year's offerings? Professor Ethan Leib joins us to talk about the legalistic and spiritual aspects of this not-so-simple question. What does this rabbinic disputation teach us about being able to always change our luck? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 63 and 64, kick things off with a meditation on causality that sounds like something straight out of a trippy science fiction novel. Author Gavriel Savit joins us to talk about Judaism's view of alternate universes, and how it inspires him as a fantasy writer. What advice does the Talmud have for aspiring Tolkiens? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 61 and 62, are all about one of Yom Kippur's most intriguing rituals, that of sacrificing one goat while sending another into the wilderness. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin returns to explain the inner logic of the scapegoat, and why it still matters today. Why must both goats, the one sacrificed and the one set loose, be exactly identical? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 60, contains a long discussion of which garments the High Priest wore while conducting the different services on Yom Kippur. Mark Oppenheimer joins us to talk about the connection between the way we dress and the way we feel, and explain why Judaism sometimes takes a turn towards the sartorially fancy. What is the symbolism of the Kohen Gadol's white garments? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 59, finds the rabbis quoting a popular folk saying. Professor A.J. Berkovitz joins us to shed light on the rabbinic system of knowledge, which revolved around studiousness and expertise but realized that wisdom resides in all corners of society and was open to learning from ordinary people as well as experts. What might today's professors learn from the rabbis' approach to learning and teaching? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 58, brings up the sacrifice the Kohen Gadol, or High Priest, offered to God on behalf of unwitting communal sins. Rabbi Sari Laufer joins us to explain this moving ritual, and how it helps turn a host of individuals into a community. Might Facebook qualify as a modern-day unwitting communal sin? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 56 and 57, asks a searing question: Does God love us even when we're impure? Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to address this seminal theological conundrum. What does the High Priest's sprinkling of blood on Yom Kippur have to do with helping us understand the Creator's idea of mercy? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 54 and 55, dive into one of the Jewish people's greatest mysteries: Exactly what happened to the Ark of the Covenant after the Temple was destroyed? Yeshiva University professor Steven Fine joins us to explain the various theories that have inspired Jews and non-Jews alike for millennia, and why we remain obsessed with this question. So did Indiana Jones get it right? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 53, opens up one of the strangest and most terrifying deaths in a book, the Bible, thick with them: the striking down of the two sons of Aaron, Moses's brother. Why did they have to die? Rabbi Shmuel Hain joins us to explain their sin, its interpretation in rabbinic literature, and why the ongoing fascination with Aaron's sons reflected the rabbis' insecurities about their own role as teachers and students. Why is humility more important than learnedness, and how is being modest better than being correct? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 52, begins with a bold claim: The Jewish people, and they alone, speak directly to God. To investigate this claim, we asked Hudson, age 7, Lily, age 9, and Daniel, age 10, to report on their conversations with the Creator. What do these young Jews believe about talking to God? And what do they ask for when they chat with Hashem? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 51, contains a delightful discussion of the Parochet, or the curtain separating the Holy of the Holies from the rest of the Temple. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin returns to discuss the meaning of this sacred curtain, and what it can teach us about finding holiness even in boundaries and limitations. How does the Parochet continue to inspire contemporary synagogue architecture and design? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 49 and 50, describe, in great detail, how the Kohen Gadol, or High Priest, dispensed the incense on the one day a year he was allowed into the Holy of the Holies. What if we took such care with everything we did? What would happen if we paid as much attention to detail when, say, we made our daily cup of coffee? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 47 and 48, find the rabbis grateful for their existence and their upbringing, so, naturally, they thank their mothers and then dive right into a discussion of just what it was that their mothers did to raise such fine sons. Alana Newhouse, editor in chief of Tablet Magazine, joins us to discuss the tension she feels about bringing God into the motherhood conversation, and the difficulties of reconciling the mystical aspects of child-rearing with the hardships imposed on it by mankind. Should you see God as your parenting partner? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 46, teaches us that the Sabbath is a communal, not personal, undertaking. Sohrab Ahmari, the author of the new book The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos, joins us to talk about how tradition is the key to making us happier and more self-assured, and how it can only be practiced together with others. What did this committed Catholic learn from thinking about Shabbat? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 45, finds the rabbis at their most glittery, talking about different kinds of gold and what each one means. Lisa Ann Sandell, the host of the Anxiously podcast, joins us to talk about the secret life of jewelry, and why a simple piece of gold can do so much to transform hearts and spirits alike. Why does wearing jewelry make us feel elevated? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 44, brings up an interesting question: Why did the ancient rabbis believe that burning incense made up for the sin of Lashon Harah, or gossip? Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain the mystical bonds that tie these two actions together, and how the Hassidic master Rabbi Tzadok taught us a moving lesson about the inclination we all feel to sometimes speak ill of each other. How should we understand our tendency to slander, and how should we fight it? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 42 and 43, give us a bit of insight into the rituals of the High Priests that have much to teach us about that most difficult of all modern questions, namely how to successfully and peacefully and happily live with other people. What should we do to better understand ourselves and others? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 40 and 41, contemplate one of the most iconic rituals in all of Judaism, that of the goat dispatched into the wilderness on Yom Kippur. We have the honor of sharing a teaching from the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks about the meaning of the scapegoat and what this dusty, desert tradition can still teach us today. How does the ancient custom give rise to new reservoirs of hope and redemption? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 39, tells a very eerie story about Shimon Ha'Tzadik seeing his own death. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain the real meaning of Shimon's mysterious apparitions, and what they can teach us about optimism, responsibility, and leadership. Who was the ominous man in black Shimon saw just a week before he died? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 38, is all about the Kohen Gadol, or the High Priest, and his duties during the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur. Yishai Ribo, one of Israel's most popular singers, wrote a song capturing the Kohen Gadol's duties and feelings on that awesome day, which we're thrilled to share. How can the Kohen Gadol's ancient experiences move us today? Listen and find out. 

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Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yoma 33 and 34, raise one of the most ancient and profound questions in all of the Talmud, the question of action versus thought. Which comes first? Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky joins us to air some ancient grievances and deliver some surprisingly modern conclusions. Are we wrong for being over-analytical and thinking everything through? Listen and find out. 

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