Today’s Talmud pages, Yevamot 118 and 119, shares Reish Lakish’s popular idiom that “it is better to sit as two, then to sit lonely as a widow.” Show editor and associate producer Quinn Waller joins to share her thoughts on this hot take and shares some of her own experiences navigating the waters of being single in New York, and tells tales of bad dates past. Is it better to be with any spouse, or can you be happy on your own? Listen and find out.
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