Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 134, tells us about two of Rabbi Hillel's students, one of them the greatest and one the least impressive. What can we learn from this story about the nature and essence of geniu...
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 133, shows us something we rarely see in contemporary politics: A senior official refusing to play the blame game and instead being kind and supportive of his errant colleagues. ...
oday’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 131 and 132, ask what we may or may not do with things that don't physically exist yet, like trading futures or, somewhat more spiritually, banking on our share in the World to C...
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 129 and 130, pose a difficult question about Halacha, or Jewish law. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explore this profound and beautiful insight into how Halacha is not a stri...
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 128, asks the question that has baffled psychologists for a very long while: can people really change? And if they do, will they necessary change for the better? The rabbis alrea...
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 127, delivers a small and sweet lesson about the mechanics of kindness. Why should we always believe good things we hear about people but not the bad things? And what are the ben...
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 126, raises a difficult question that begins with inheritance and sends us exploring the meaning of religious belief. Can the Torah tell us what we must and mustn't do with our p...
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 123, 124, and 125, tells a sordid and complicated tale of inheritance gone wrong. At its core is this vexing question: Can a person have a say in what happens to something once ...
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 120, 121, and 122, contain a charming discussion of Judaism's happiest days. One is the 15th of Av, the Jewish celebration of love; the other is... Yom Kippur? Singer, songwrite...
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 119, delivers a direct warning for women not to marry too late in life. Faith Salie, author, actress, and panelist on NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! joins us to talk about her...