Kiddushin 51 – A Situation of Uncertainty
Publisher |
Tablet Magazine
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Judaism
Religion & Spirituality
Publication Date |
Oct 03, 2023
Episode Duration |
00:08:40
In today’s Talmud page, Kiddushin 51, the Rabbis ponder what is meant when a father indicates that his eldest daughter is betrothed to be married in the case where he has had more than one set of daughters, and thus it is not clear if he is discussing the eldest of the first set, or the eldest of the second set. This idea of being put into a situation of uncertainty is something that the Rabbis of the Talmud were trying to make sense of, as are scientists today. A recent experiment, published in 2016 in Nature measured the stress level of subjects when they either knew they were definitely going to get shocked, vs when they knew they had a fifty percent change of it. How did the different subjects respond to their different levels of uncertainty? Listen and find out. Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hostedby Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Satephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer.  Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

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