Today’s Talmud page, Yevamot 122, brings us to the end of Tractate Yevamot. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to review some of its key insights, and tell us why the rabbis chose to begin their discussion of marriage and family with the grim question of a man dying childless. What does it truly mean to be a member of a family? Listen and find out.
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