Today's Daf Yomi pages, Eruvin 28 and 29, find one of the rabbis reminiscing about the wonderful remedies his nurse-mother used to offer when he was ill. Tablet's editor in chief, Alana Newhouse joins us to offer a spirited defense of folk wisdom, and lament the ways in which the traditional male establishment still ignores the insights women have wisely accumulated for years. How did a single nurse stump the best doctors and discovered a cure for jaundice? Listen and find out.
