Talmudic Wisdom for the Holidays

Today’s Talmud pages, Gittin 9, 10, and 11, continues to explore the importance of certain documents being written intentionally for a particular person. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin, joins us to share how this concept connects to the holiday of Shavuot, and how the learning of Torah should also be done for its own sake. Is there a difference between consumerism and covenant? Listen and find out.

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