Today’s Talmud pages, Gittin 89 and 90, bring us to the end of Tractate Gittin. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to reflect on this tractate, and how while it is at its core about the dissolution of a marriage, it is more deeply about the connection or absence of a connection with God. What does it mean that an altar sheds tears at the divorce of a couple? Listen and find out.

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