Talmud Daily

Day 55 | Beitzah 

Nearly thirty years after ninth grade, Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin reunites with the rebbe whose voice he still hears when he learns Talmud.

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Day 54 | Beitzah 

Jews in the diaspora once kept two days of Yom Tov because word of the new moon could take weeks to reach them. Why do we still keep both?

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Day 53 | Beitzah

Why can we cook on Yom Tov but not on Shabbos? The answer lies in the future each holy day invites us to taste.

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Day 52 | Beitzah

Making room for God and making room for others begin at the same Yom Tov table.

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Day 51 | Beitzah

Fresh food, a phone set aside, and the possibility of discovering something new about ourselves. Tractate Beitzah explores how we make room for a holy day.

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Day 50: Sukkah

Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel explores how the sukkah teaches us to hold grief and blessing in the same hands, and find joy within life’s uncertainty.

Editor’s Note: Toward the end of the podcast, we experienced some technical difficulties that interfered with the audio quality of the podcast. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Day 49 | Sukkah

Mashiach ben Yosef builds the infrastructure of redemption. Mashiach ben David restores its soul. The Jewish future needs both.

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Day 48 | Sukkah

From the Shabbos table to the Torah we teach, Jewish life deserves our creativity and care.

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Day 47 | Sukkah 

From Avraham’s 318 servants to the boards in our garage, a lesson in living beyond despair.

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Day 46 | Sukkah

Why do we leave our homes for a sukkah five days after Yom Kippur? What, exactly, are we celebrating?

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Day 45 | Yoma

What do two goats, five immersions, and a cloud of incense reveal about the human condition?

Rabbi Yaakov Glasser is the Managing Director of Communal Engagement at the Orthodox Union, where he plays a pivotal role in strengthening Jewish communities. Previously, he served as the International Director of Education for NCSY and as the Regional Director of New Jersey NCSY, inspiring Jewish youth through innovative programming and education. He is also the Rabbi of the Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton and formerly the Dean of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future. Known for his dynamic teaching and leadership, Rabbi Glasser connects Torah values to modern life, impacting communities across generations.

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Day 44 | Yoma 

One person enters the Holy of Holies. An entire people’s tears enter with him.

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Day 43 | Yoma 

Teshuva asks us to take responsibility and imagine a different future.



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Day 42 | Yoma 

Today's learning is sponsored by Eli Cem Cohen in honor of student Rabbi Leon Okan Avraham, on his birthday.

Why does Yom Kippur’s service need both the offering and the scapegoat?

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Day 41 | Yoma 

This episode is sponsored by Deborah Spector, Oak Park, Illinois.

A broken covenant and a bereaved father stand behind Yom Kippur’s most sacred encounter.

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Day 40 | Shekalim 

What held the Jewish people together when so many lived far from the Land of Israel?

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich is the Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish Publication Society, Visiting Professor at Yeshiva University’s Revel Graduate School for Jewish Studies, and a Council Member of President Isaac Herzog’s Voice of the People delegation.She is the author of Letters From Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity(2024), Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism (2018), and The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria (2016).Simkovich’s articles have been published in journals such as the Harvard Theological Review, Sapir, the Journal for the Study of Judaism, the Jewish Review of Books, Tablet, and Tradition. She is currently working on a book about the concept of divine providence, and speaks regularly to audiences across North America and beyond on topics related to the Tanakh and Jewish history.

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Day 39 | Shekalim

How did a small charity box become a technology of Jewish peoplehood?

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Day 38 | Shekalim 

Why does the Torah insist that rich and poor give the exact same amount?

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Day 37 | Shekalim 

Tractate Shekalim asks what it means to bind ourselves to something larger than ourselves.

Today's learning is sponsored by Roger in Seattle in memory of his beloved wife Jane. 

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Day 36 | Shekalim

The Talmud Bavli never had a tractate Shekalim. So how did it end up in ours?

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Day 35 | Pesachim

From the Korban Pesach to removing chametz, Pesach turns ordinary domestic space into sacred space.

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Day 34 | Pesachim

From the Korban Pesach to Maggid, the Seder shows how Jewish memory adapts without losing its past.

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Day 33 | Pesachim

To know who we are, we need to know the generations that came before us.

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Day 32 | Pesachim

Why does God answer Avraham’s question about Jewish continuity with a promise of slavery?

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Day 31 | Pesachim

The Korban Pesach transformed a collection of families into the Jewish people.

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Day 30 | Eruvin 

The laws of eruvin can feel out of reach. Rabbi Micha Shotkin builds them into the streets where we live.

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Day 29 | Eruvin 

The laws of Eruvin often lead to sharp and harsh disagreements within communities. But maybe that is the point. 

This episode is sponsored by Daniel and Jamie Schwartz in memory of לע״נ חיים אלטר בן משה דוד.

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Day 28 | Moed 

Eruvin teaches us to notice our boundaries and invite others inside. 

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Day 27 | Eruvin 

The Talmud teaches us how competing perspectives can become part of the same sacred conversation.

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Day 26 | Eruvin

Jewish community is built not by putting up walls, but by creating doorways.

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Day 25 | Shabbos 

What electricity, cholent, and the Israeli army teach us about applying ancient laws to modern life.

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Day 24 | Shabbos

What happens when Jewish practice can no longer simply be passed down?

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Day 23 | Shabbos

Community, preparation, and acceptance transform Shabbos from a set of restrictions into a way of life.

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Day 22 | Shabbos

Shabbos teaches us that holiness is found not by escaping ordinary life, but by transforming it.

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Day 21 | Shabbos

How the Talmud transforms 39 categories of prohibited work into a shared experience of sacred time.

Scheduling Note: In observance of Yom Kippur, Talmud Daily will be on hiatus on Monday, September 21. Rabbi Bashevkin will return with a new episode on Tuesday, September 22.

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Day 20 | Brachos

Jewish time is about more than clocks and calendars. Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz explains how halacha gives purpose to our days—and how Talmud connects us across generations.

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Day 19 | Brachos

Jewish prayer developed over centuries. But its central challenge remains the same: finding words for God when God seems absent.

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Day 18 | Brachos

Jewish blessings train us to move beyond general gratitude and recognize the particular gifts before us.


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Today's learning is sponsored by Sue Rokaw in memory of her husband, Alan Test, on his birthday.



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Day 17 | Brachos

Life can feel like a dream whose meaning is difficult to decipher. Berakhot offers an interpretation one blessing at a time.

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Day 16 | Brachos

While the Talmud begins without a preface, its opening question may tell us everything we need to know about its larger project.

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Today's learning is sponsored by Judah & Ora Mischel in honor of The Bashevkin Family.

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Day 15 | Foundations

How did generations of oral debate become Judaism’s foundational text? Ari Bergmann tells the story of how the Talmud became the Talmud.

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Day 14 | Foundations


The Rambam tried to distill the Talmud into one organized system. But instead of ending the conversation, he created an entirely new chapter of Torah study.

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Day 13 | Foundations

Choosing the right edition can make the Talmud far more accessible. But the real breakthrough comes when its unfamiliar words stop looking like obstacles and start becoming signposts.

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Day 11 | Foundations

The structure of the Talmud teaches us not only to organize Torah, but to sanctify time.

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Day 10 | Foundations

In this episode of Talmud Daily: Voices, Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin speaks with Michelle Margolis, the Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia University, about the remarkable story of how the Talmud became the book we recognize today.

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Day 9 | Foundations

One explains the Talmud line by line. The other connects its most distant conversations. Together, Rashi and Tosfot taught generations how to learn Gemara.

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Day 8 | Foundations

From the Mishnah to Rashi to Rabbi Akiva Eiger, every page of Talmud brings generations of Jewish learning into a single conversation.

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Day 7 | Foundations

Some parts of life are written for us. Others are ours to interpret. 

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Day 6 | Foundations

The Torah has always been more than a written text. Jewish tradition lives in the relationship between the words we read and the Oral Torah that teaches us how to live them.

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Day 5 | Foundations 

Liel Leibovitz reflects on falling in love with the Talmud precisely because it is so difficult—and on how its questions, frustrations, and intricate details can transform the way we live. 

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Today's learning is sponsored by Daniel and Jessica Courtney in memory of Dr. Stuart A. Courtney. 



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Day 4 | Foundations

For centuries, enemies of the Jewish people have targeted the Talmud because it represents far more than a book—it is the foundation of a distinctly Jewish way of life.


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Day 3 | Foundations

Every morning, we pray that Torah should be sweet. But sweetness alone is not enough.

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Day 2 | Foundations

When Moshe shattered the first tablets, he set the stage for a new kind of Torah. One built through interpretation, argument, and our participation.

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Day 1 | Foundations

The Talmud begins long before its first page, with an eternal conversation passed from generation to generation.


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