Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 79, urges us to reflect on the choices we make when we vow not to eat this food or that. Rabbi Shuli Passow joins us to talk about her custom, inspired by one of the greatest rabbis in modern times, to refrain from eating meat during the week but consume it on Shabbat. Can you be a part-time vegetarian? And why did a major New York synagogue decide to boycott lox? Listen and find out.
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