Talmud Daily

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. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sp

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.  Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Spon

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? Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: S

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. Put Your Name o

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? Put Your Na

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. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Spo

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. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate,

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 d

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. Edito

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. Put Your Name on a Day o

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. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a

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. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor

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,

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 Eng

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

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

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

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

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 Publ

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 a