Talmud Daily
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.
Day 58: Nomads in Time
Day 58 | Rosh Hashanah
When the future presses down on the present, the Jewish calendar offers us a home in time.
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Day 57: Who We Are and Who We’re Becoming
Day 57 | Rosh Hashanah
Some days we feel full. Other days we see only a sliver of ourselves. Jewish time makes room for both.
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Day 56: How the Jewish Calendar Became a Guinness World Record
Day 56 | Rosh Hashanah
Twelve lunar months leave us about eleven days short of a solar year. What do we do with those eleven days?
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Day 55: Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky: Learning in My Rebbe’s Voice
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: Where I Am or Where I Come From?
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: A Taste of Two Futures
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: Half for God, Half for You
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: An Egg’s Potential, a Holy Day’s Promise
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: Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel: Finding Joy in a Fragile World
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: Two Messiahs, One Redemption
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: The Beauty We Bring to Torah
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: Rebuilding the Sukkah of David
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: 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?
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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 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 hi...
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.
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Day 43: Making Space for Forgiveness
Day 43 | Yoma
Teshuva asks us to take responsibility and imagine a different future.
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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?
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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.
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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 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 be...
Day 39: The Pushka That Built a People
Day 39 | Shekalim
How did a small charity box become a technology of Jewish peoplehood?
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
Today’s learning is sponsored by T, L, and Shosh in honor of learning and yiddishkeit!
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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.
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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.
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Today's learning is sponsored by Rudiger Laufhutte in honor of Judi (Gershona) Laufhutte.
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