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Talmud Daily
by 18Forty Team
The first accessible journey into the heart of Judaism. Forty weeks. Ten minute episodes Monday through Thursday — plus a longer Friday interview if you want to go deeper. No Hebrew required. A daily learning program for the rest of us — ending alongside the global Jewish world at Siyum HaShas. Get the full experience at talmuddaily.org.
Episodes
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Day 46: Creation, Revelation, Redemption
Day 46 | Sukkah Why do we leave our homes for a sukkah five days after Yom Kippur? What, exactly, are we celebrating? Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily...
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Day 45: Rabbi Yaakov Glasser: Finding Ourselves in the Holy of Holies
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...
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Day 44: Carrying Our Cries Before God
Day 44 | Yoma One person enters the Holy of Holies. An entire people’s tears enter with him. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to...
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Day 43: Making Space for Forgiveness
Day 43 | Yoma Teshuva asks us to take responsibility and imagine a different future. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn…
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Day 42: Two Goats, One Journey
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? Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift...
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Day 41: One Person, One Place, One Day
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. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free…
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Day 40: Dr. Malka Simkovich: How Jerusalem Held the Jewish World Together
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...
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Day 39: The Pushka That Built a People
Day 39 | Shekalim How did a small charity box become a technology of Jewish peoplehood? Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn...
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Day 38: A Half-Shekel, a Whole People
Day 38 | Shekalim Why does the Torah insist that rich and poor give the exact same amount? Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to…
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Day 37: The Jewish People as a Living Whole
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. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift...
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Day 36: Shekalim: The Tractate That Wasn’t Supposed to Be Here
Day 36 | Shekalim The Talmud Bavli never had a tractate Shekalim. So how did it end up in ours? Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here…
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Day 35: Rabbanit Sally Mayer: Turning the Jewish Home Into an Altar
Day 35 | Pesachim From the Korban Pesach to removing chametz, Pesach turns ordinary domestic space into sacred space. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily...
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Day 34: The Haggadah as Jewish Memory
Day 34 | Pesachim From the Korban Pesach to Maggid, the Seder shows how Jewish memory adapts without losing its past. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily...
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Day 33: The Stories We Carry
Day 33 | Pesachim To know who we are, we need to know the generations that came before us. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to…
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Day 32: A People Born in Bondage
Day 32 | Pesachim Why does God answer Avraham’s question about Jewish continuity with a promise of slavery? Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning....
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Day 31: A Family Becomes a Nation
Day 31 | Pesachim The Korban Pesach transformed a collection of families into the Jewish people. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here…
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Day 30: Rabbi Micha Shotkin: The Rabbi Who Builds Eruvin
Day 30 | Eruvin The laws of eruvin can feel out of reach. Rabbi Micha Shotkin builds them into the streets where we live. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the...
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Day 29: The Eruv Wars
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. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or...
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Day 28: A Wall Made of Doorways
Day 28 | Moed Eruvin teaches us to notice our boundaries and invite others inside. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more....
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Day 27: The Boundaries of Truth
Day 27 | Eruvin The Talmud teaches us how competing perspectives can become part of the same sacred conversation. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily...
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Day 26: The Boundaries That Bring Us Together
Day 26 | Eruvin Jewish community is built not by putting up walls, but by creating doorways. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to...
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Day 25: Shalom Rosner: How Shabbos Entered the Modern World
Day 25 | Shabbos What electricity, cholent, and the Israeli army teach us about applying ancient laws to modern life. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily...
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Day 24: The Shabbos We Inherited
Day 24 | Shabbos What happens when Jewish practice can no longer simply be passed down? Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn...
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Day 23: The Secret Ingredients of Shabbos
Day 23 | Shabbos Community, preparation, and acceptance transform Shabbos from a set of restrictions into a way of life. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the…
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Day 22: Finding God Outside the Cave
Day 22 | Shabbos Shabbos teaches us that holiness is found not by escaping ordinary life, but by transforming it. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily...
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Day 21: Shabbos: The Temple in Time
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: Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz: The Talmud as a Timeless Machine
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. This week's learning is sponsored by anonymous. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a...
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Day 19: The Siddur Wasn’t Written in a Day
Day 19 | Brachos Jewish prayer developed over centuries. But its central challenge remains the same: finding words for God when God seems absent. This week's learning is sponsored by anonymous. Today's learning is sponsored by Rudiger Laufhutte in honor of Judi (Gershona) Laufhutte. Put Your Name...
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Day 18: The Divine Is in the Details
Day 18 | Brachos Jewish blessings train us to move beyond general gratitude and recognize the particular gifts before us. This week's learning is sponsored by anonymous. Today's learning is sponsored by Sue Rokaw in memory of her husband, Alan Test, on his birthday. Put Your Name on a Day of...
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Day 17: Blessings, Dreams, and Exile
Day 17 | Brachos Life can feel like a dream whose meaning is difficult to decipher. Berakhot offers an interpretation one blessing at a time. This week's learning is sponsored by anonymous. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps...
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Day 16: The Talmud’s Unwritten Introduction
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. This week's learning is sponsored by anonymous. Today's learning is sponsored by Judah & Ora Mischel in honor of The Bashevkin Family. Put Your Name on…
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Day 15: Ari Bergmann: How the Talmud Went from Conversation to Canon
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. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone...
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Day 14: The Rambam, Categorizer-in-Chief
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. Today’s learning is sponsored by Roger of Seattle in memory of Jane. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day,...
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Day 13: How to Choose Your Talmud
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. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount....
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Day 12: The Body and Soul of the Talmud
Today's learning is sponsored by The Canter Family in memory of M. Kenneth Canter - Moshe Koppel Ben Yehoshua v’ Sarah Dinah. Day 12 | Foundations What are we actually doing when we study Talmud? Meet three essential approaches—halacha, aggadta, and lomdus—and discover how each illuminates the...
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Day 11: Choose Time
Day 11 | Foundations The structure of the Talmud teaches us not only to organize Torah, but to sanctify time. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily…
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Day 10: Michelle Margolis: How the Talmud Went from Parchment to Pixels
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. Put Your Name on a Day…
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Day 9: The Two Sides of the Talmud
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. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily...
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Day 8: A Symposium of Generations
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. Today's learning is sponsored by Anonymous in memory of Aharon Ben Nazlie and Tzvi Ben Yehoshua Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a...
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Day 7: The Doodles of the Gemara
Day 7 | Foundations Some parts of life are written for us. Others are ours to interpret. Today's learning is sponsored by Yael Laifer in memory of Raizel Devora bat Menachem Mendel on her 24th yahrzeit. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount.…
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Day 6: The Torah We Read and the Torah We Live
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. Today's learning is sponsored by anonymous. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor…
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Day 5: Liel Leibovitz: Why the Talmud Is So Hard to Love—and Worth Loving
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. This week's learning is sponsored by Richard and Sheryl Weisberg in honor of their...
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Day 4: The Talmud on Trial—Why a Book Became a Target
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. This week’s learning is sponsored by Richard and Sheryl Weisberg in honor of their grandchildren. Today’s...
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Day 3: Make Torah Sweet
Day 3 | Foundations Every morning, we pray that Torah should be sweet. But sweetness alone is not enough. This week’s learning is sponsored by Richard and Sheryl Weisberg in honor of their grandchildren. Today’s learning is sponsored by anonymous in memory of Clara and Samuel Siegel, Jacob and…
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Day 2: The Broken Tablets
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. This week’s learning is sponsored by Richard and Sheryl Weisberg in honor of their grandchildren. Today's learning is sponsored…
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Day 1: Before the Talmud, There Was a People
Day 1 | Foundations The Talmud begins long before its first page, with an eternal conversation passed from generation to generation. This week’s learning is sponsored by Richard and Sheryl Weisberg in honor of their grandchildren. Today’s learning is sponsored by Silvana & Gustavo Rosemblat in...
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Forty weeks. Ten minute episodes Monday through Thursday — plus a longer Friday interview if you want to go deeper. No Hebrew required. A daily learning program for the rest of us — ending alongside the global Jewish world at Siyum HaShas. Get the full experience at talmuddaily.org. Put Your Name...
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The first accessible journey into the heart of Judaism.
Forty weeks. Ten minute episodes Monday through Thursday — plus a longer Friday interview if you want to go deeper.
No Hebrew required. A daily learning program for the rest of us — ending alongside the global Jewish world at Siyum HaShas.
Get the full experience at talmuddaily.org.
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