Today’s Talmud pages, Nedarim 17 and 18, give us a peek beyond good and evil. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us for a taste of why vows and words continue to have meaning long after the people who spoke them are gone. What supremely optimistic lesson may we learn from today's page? Listen and find out.

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