Today’s Talmud pages, Sotah 39 and 40, discuss the rituals around the torah service. Producer Quinn Waller joins us to share her anxiety about getting an aliya to the Torah and how being in the presence of the Torah is personally transformative. What is it about the ancient scroll that makes it feel so powerful? Listen and find out?
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