Today’s Talmud pages, Nazir 11 and 12, are all about the sauce. Novelist Ruby Namdar joins us to talk about the Talmud's approach to drunkenness, and why so much of our trouble--and our inspiration--comes when we've had a few. What was the real fruit Adam and Eve tasted in Eden? Listen and find out.
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