Take One Daf Yomi

In today’s Talmud pages, Kiddushin 33 and 34, the question is asked whether respect should be given based on age, or based on knowledge. While knowledge and expertise is important in many fields, honoring the wisdom that comes with age is equally, if not more important. What do we learn through the adventures of life? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hostedby Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Satephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud page, Kiddushin 32, the story is told of a great Rabbi who was serving drinks to the guests at the wedding of his son, and the other rabbis asked whether it was appropriate for such a great man to be serving them. Finally Rabbi Tzadok speaks up and reminds the others that God serves all people, so it is not inappropriate for a great man to do the same. This encourages us to consider the honor we invest in people and in God. Tablet writer Armin Rosen joins us to discuss a review he recently published about the Andrei Tarkovsky film Andrei Rublev which deals with just these questions? What does a soviet film from 1966 have to teach us about faith, and honoring God and man? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hostedby Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Satephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud page, Kiddushin 31, it states that the torah instructs one to honor your father before your mother, and fear your mother before your father because that is not the natural way a child would feel. Tablet Studios General Manager, and an honored and feared mother, Tanya Singer returns to discuss the different roles that parents have in the life of a child, and the ways that gender can sometimes play into those roles. What can we learn from the fact that when being called up to the Torah we are called by our fathers name, but when praying for healing, it is by our mothers? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hostedby Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Satephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud page, Kiddushin 30, it states that God created an evil inclination, but that the study of Torah will keep you from harm. We wonder why God created an evil inclination in the first place. Would it not have been easier if we were not enticed by such an evil desire? What can we learn from an old story to better understand why the evil inclination is actually an important impulse to fight against? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hostedby Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Satephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud pages, Kiddushin 28 and 29, we focus on the word “command”, which is understood not to refer to a single moment, but for that moment onward for all generations. Zev Moses, the Executive Director of the Museum of Jewish Montreal joins us to share how the museum he founded changed from a view of the history of Jews of Montreal to include what Jewish community looks like now and into the future. What can you expect from an experience of the Museum? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hostedby Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Satephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud pages, Kiddushin 26 and 27, the Rabbis discuss how an animal is acquired. While it is stated that an animal can be acquired by either lifting it or pulling it. The Rabbis respond by asking how one acquires an elephant, which can neither be lifted, nor pulled. This page can be viewed as a meditation on how we treat animals, or on the intricacies of contract law, but perhaps we should focus instead on thinking and imagination. What is the creative solution that the rabbis found to obtain an elephant? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hostedby Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Satephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud page, Kiddushin 25, we hear the story of an attempt at education gone wrong. Professor Alyssa Quint joins us to share her experiences of working with students who, like the students discussed in the Talmud, didn’t respect their teacher. What are the ways in which students and teachers can., and should, respectfully share ideas, and disagreements? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hostedby Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Satephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud page, Kiddushin 24, it is all about noise. The Rabbis discuss the harm that one can cause another by shouting into their ear. This harm may not be an injury that they would be liable for in a court of law, but it is one that they are liable for in the court of the heavens. We all live in a world surrounded by the noise of our outside world, noise that is higher than is safe for our ears. During this month of Elul, perhaps it is an appropriate time to find a moment of two to be quiet and take that time for introspection. What can we do to quiet our minds, and appreciate the silence? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hostedby Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud page, Kiddushin 23, it indicates that a slave cannot free themselves with their own money, but can only be freed by the money provided by others. Rabbi Diana Fersko joins us to discuss the ways that even when not thinking about slavery, there is something important of relying on our community and how we should all strive to be “the others” that can help liberate those who need it. What is our responsibility towards those who can not do for themselves? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hostedby Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud pages, Kiddushin 21 and 22, Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai expresses the special place that the ear plays above all other parts of the body. A dedicated lover of music and all things audio, Tablet producer Josh Kross joins us to discuss the importance that sound plays in how we experience the world. In addition to discussing the centrality of the sense of hearing, we share a segment from a recent episode of Unorthodox about the National Library of Israel’s music and sound archive. If forced to choose between losing sight or hearing, which would our guest choose? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hostedby Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.